Pulse power research on EAGLE

Author

Frazier, G.B. ; Ashby, S.R. ; Barrett, D.M. ; Capua, M. S Di ; Demeter, L.J. ; Huff, R. ; Osias, D.E. ; Ryan, R. ; Spence, P. ; Strachan, D.F. ; Sullivan, T.S.

Author_Institution

Physics International Company, San Leandro, California 94577, USA

fYear

1981

fDate

June 29 1981-July 3 1981

Firstpage

733

Lastpage

742

Abstract

EAGLE is an experimental pulse generator designed and built at Physics International Company (PI) for research in high-power switching, pulse compression, power flow, magnetic insulation, and dielectric breakdown. EAGLE is a wedge-shaped 1/20th "slice" (module) of ROULETTE, Pi\´s conceptual design for a 40 to 50 TW, disk-shaped, modular accelerator designed to drive imploded plasma or particle beam loads- EAGLE\´s nominal design goals were a 100 ns, 2 TW, 2 MV, 1 MA pulse into a resistive load, or a 150 to 200 ns pulse at lower power. EAGLE has a 0.9 MJ Marx generator and four water-dielectric triplate transmission lines with adjustable impedances. The first line is a gas-switched transfer capacitor. Next are two water-switched pulsed compression stages and an output line converging to either a resistive load or a racetrack-shaped water-vacuum interface. We discuss the ROULETTE conceptual design, describe EAGLE, outline planned research on EAGLE, and summarize some of the program\´s technology developments.

Keywords

Capacitors; Electrodes; Feeds; Generators; Impedance; Jitter; Switches;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

High-Power Electron and Ion Beam Research & Technology, 1981 4th International Topical Conference on

Conference_Location

Palaiseau, France

Print_ISBN

000-0-0000-0000-0

Type

conf

Filename

6393684