Experiments with microsecond Magnetically Controlled Plasma Opening Switch

Author

Lisitsyn, I.V. ; Bystritskii, V.M. ; Sinebryukhov, A.A. ; Sinebryukhov, Vadim A. ; Kim, Alexander A. ; Kokshenev, Vladimir A. ; Koval´chuk, B.M. ; Loginov, Sergey Vasilievich ; McDaniel, Dillon H. ; Mendel, C.W. ; Savage, Mark E. ; Zagar, D.M. ; Simpson,

Author_Institution

Institute of Electrophysics, Ekaterinburg, Russia

Volume

1

fYear

1994

fDate

20-24 June 1994

Firstpage

17

Lastpage

20

Abstract

Presented are the results obtained in recent Magnetically Controlled Plasma Opening Switch experiments in submicrosecond conduction time range on the terawatt GIT-4 pulser at Institute of High Current Electronics. The opening time control was provided by variation of both slow magnetic field and fast magnetic field amplitudes in switch region. The additional trigger Plasma Opening Switch placed in fast coil circuit allowed to vary the fast coil “turn-on” and risetime of fast magnetic field. We investigated switch performance for both plasma injection directions: along slow magnetic field lines and across them. The coaxial inductance or electron beam diode served for a load in the experiments. The switching characteristics were studied as functions of plasma parameters.

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

Conference_Titel

High-Power Particle Beams, 1994 10th International Conference on

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1518-2

Type

conf

Filename

6304393