Bipolar modulation of the output of a 10-GW pulsed power generator

Wang, Meng; Novac, Bucur; Pecastaing, Laurent; Smith, Ivor

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Bipolar modulation of the output of a 10-GW pulsed power generator

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posted on 2016-07-07, 12:57 authored by Meng Wang, Bucur NovacBucur Novac, Laurent Pecastaing, Ivor Smith

A bipolar Blumlein former has been designed and successfully implemented as an extension to an existing 10-GW-Tesla-driven Blumlein pulsed power generator. The new system is capable of generating a voltage impulse with a peak-to-peak value reaching 650 kV and having a high-frequency limit of the bandwidth well in excess of 1 GHz. Constructional details are provided, together with experimental results and analysis using the 3-D software modeling of the bipolar former that provides the results in good agreement with experimental data.

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School

Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering

Published in

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Citation

WANG, M. ... et al, 2016. Bipolar modulation of the output of a 10-GW pulsed power generator. IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, 44 (10), pp.1971-1977.

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AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publication date

2016

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