Frequency and bandwidth agile pulser for use in electrical and biological effects testing

Author

Skipper, M.C. ; Abdalla, M.D. ; Romero, S.P. ; Tyo, J.S.

Author_Institution

ASR Corp., Albuquerque, NM, USA

Volume

1

fYear

2003

fDate

15-18 June 2003

Firstpage

331

Abstract

In this paper we present a Blumlein based pulse generator designed to be tunable in both center frequency and bandwidth. The pulser is designed around a parallel plate Blumlein configuration with a moveable center conductor. The pulse width is determined by moving the center conductor in and out of the Blumlein region, and the bandwidth is set by offsetting the center conductor towards one or the other of the outer electrodes. The output is designed to drive a test volume with cross sectional area on the order of 1 cm/sup 2/. The final system will be capable of producing fields on the order of 30 kV/cm and will be useful for testing the interaction of high field, pulsed electromagnetic energy with small-scale electrical and biological systems. A low voltage experimental arrangement will be presented in this paper.

Keywords

conductors (electric); electromagnetic waves; pulse generators; Blumlein based pulse generator; bandwidth agile pulser; biological systems; electrodes; frequency pulser; pulse width; pulsed electromagnetic energy; small-scale electrical system; Bandwidth; Biological systems; Conductors; EMP radiation effects; Electrodes; Electromagnetic fields; Frequency; Pulse generation; Space vector pulse width modulation; System testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Pulsed Power Conference, 2003. Digest of Technical Papers. PPC-2003. 14th IEEE International

Conference_Location

Dallas, TX, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7915-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PPC.2003.1277722

Filename

1277722