The Electra advanced pulsed power development program has the goal of developing and demonstrating pulsed power technology that is applicable for KrF (krypton fluoride) Laser IFE (inertial fusion energy). The application presents efficiency, lifetime and cost challenges that mandate the use of advanced pulse compression topologies. In turn, these advanced topologies require the development of c...

A pulsed power generator, Pawn, has been assembled at the Naval Research Laboratory. It employees inductive energy storage and opening switch power conditioning techniques with high energy density capacitors as the primary energy store. The energy stored in the capacitor bank is transferred to a vacuum inductor in "'15 ps. Wire fuses provide the first stage of pulse compression. Futiher power c...

Fast high current and voltage switches are very important tools for pulsed power applications. They have for example applications in accelerator laboratories to drive fast injectionand extraction magnets, beam dumps and in quadrupole lenses. Basically, there are two complete different principles used to realise a high power switches. One is based on the use of semiconductors, where as the other...

a new output structure for class e power amplifier (pa) is proposed in this paper. a series lc resonator circuit, tuned near the second harmonic of the operating frequency is added to the output circuit. this resonator causes low impedance at the second harmonic. the output circuit is designed to shape the switch voltage of the class e amplifier and lower the voltage stress of the transistor. t...

A repetitive, high-power opening switch technique for use in pulsed power applications using inductive energy storage is presented, along with data which demonstrate performance characteristics. This technique uses jets of a liquid conductor to replace the solid metal fuses in exploding-fuse opening-switch designs. High-power switching characteristics such as interrupt current, holdoff voltage,...

Nowadays the main driving parameters for the radio transmitter research are: energy efficiency, frequency re-configurability and integration. Pulsed transmitter architectures have attracted large interest in the recent years due to their potential to meet these demands. In pulsed transmitters, a highly efficient switch mode power amplifier (SMPA) is used in conjunction with a pulse modulator to...

Sandia's Z machine used water as both an insulator in power storage components as well as a switching media. The anomalously high energy density, coupled with its high dielectric strength, allow flor a significant reduction in size over a gas insulated design. Moreover, the h g h currents required to produce ICF demand a low inductance design, which is aided by the high electrical breakdown str...