High-speed optical diagnostic of an exploding wire fuse

Author

Giesselmann, M. ; Heeren, T. ; Neuber, A. ; Walter, J. ; Kristiansen, M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Texas Tech. Univ., Lubbock, TX, USA

Volume

30

Issue

1

fYear

2002

fDate

2/1/2002 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

100

Lastpage

101

Abstract

Explosive flux compression generators generate hundreds of kiloamperes and voltages of a few kilovolts. A power conditioning stage is required since typically voltages in the hundreds of kilovolts range are needed. Inductive energy storage systems with an opening switch provide the necessary voltage gain. In our application, the opening switch has been implemented as an exploding wire fuse. The voltage gain, and hence the performance of the system, is greatly dependent on the opening switch. We utilized high-speed optical imaging (up to 10⁷ pictures/s) to assess the performance of the exploding wire fuse

Keywords

electric fuses; exploding wires; high-speed optical techniques; plasma diagnostics; plasma production; exploding wire fuse; explosive flux compression generators; flux compression generator; high-speed optical diagnostic; high-speed optical imaging; inductive energy storage systems; opening switch; optical diagnostic; power conditioning; power conditioning stage; voltage gain; voltages; Energy storage; Explosives; Fuses; High speed optical techniques; Optical imaging; Optical switches; Performance gain; Power conditioning; Voltage; Wire;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Plasma Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0093-3813

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TPS.2002.1003943

Filename

1003943