Photoconductive semiconductor switch-based triggering with 1 ns jitter for trigatron

Triggering of Trigatron Spark Gaps

The trigatron has been in widespread use as a demand-triggered, high-voltage switch for more than 40 years. In spite of the popularity and maturity of the technology, there persists an uncertainty over the basic physical mechanism(s) responsible for triggering breakdown in the devices. We present the results of an empirical study which directly demonstrate that in the normal operating region of...

Photoconductive Semiconductor Switches: Laser Q-switch Trigger and Switch-Trigger Laser Integration

This report provides a summary of the Pulser In a Chip 9000-Discretionary LDRD. The program began in January of 1997 and concluded in September of 1997. The over-arching goal of this LDRD is to study whether laser diode triggered photoconductive semiconductor switches (PCSS) can be used to activate electro-optic devices such as Q-switches and Pockels cells and to study possible laser diode/ swi...

Triggering in trigatron spark gaps: A fundamental study

Physical mechanism of triggering in trigatron spark gaps

Microlens coupled interdigital photoconductive switch

Gabor Matthäus, Stefan Nolte, Rico Hohmuth, Martin Voitsch, Wolfgang Richter, Boris Pradarutti, Stefan Riehemann, Gunther Notni, and Andreas Tünnermann Institute of Applied Physics, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Max-Wien-Platz 1, Jena D-07743, Germany BATOP GmbH, Wildenbruchstrasse 15, Jena D-07745, Germany Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering, Albert-Einstein...