Introduction of the Magnetic Pulse Compressor (MPC) - Fundamental Review and Practical Application

Choi, Jaehyuk

doi:10.5370/jeet.2010.5.3.484

Cited by 40 publications

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“…Their primary shortcoming is their inherently long current rise time, ∼500 ns. However, this can be mitigated by implementing magnetic pulse compression, which is a standard technique for increasing the peak current and reducing rise time of the pulse using saturable inductors [46]. Compression factors of over 5 times have been demonstrated for projects associated with excimer laser development [47].…”

Section: Roadmap To Next-generation Ultrafast Co 2 Lasersmentioning

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Mid-infrared lasers for energy frontier plasma accelerators

Pogorelsky

Polyanskiy

Kimura

2016

Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams

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Plasma wake field accelerators driven with solid-state near-IR lasers have been considered as an alternative to conventional rf accelerators for next-generation TeV-class lepton colliders. Here, we extend this study to the mid-IR spectral domain covered by CO 2 lasers. We conclude that the increase in the laser driver wavelength favors the regime of laser wake field acceleration with a low plasma density and high electric charge. This regime is the most beneficial for gamma colliders to be converted from lepton colliders via inverse Compton scattering. Selecting a laser wavelength to drive a Compton gamma source is essential for the design of such a machine. The revealed benefits from spectral diversification of laser drivers for future colliders and offspring applications validate ongoing efforts in advancing the ultrafast CO 2 laser technology.

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Section: Roadmap To Next-generation Ultrafast Co 2 Lasersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mid-infrared lasers for energy frontier plasma accelerators

Pogorelsky

Polyanskiy

Kimura

2016

Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams

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“…The voltage output at the load end in the system is directly obtained from the synchronous discharge of switches, each biased to charging voltage; and the temporal characteristics depend on a single brick. The scheme, hence eliminates the intermediated voltage conditioning steps, otherwise employed in the popular magnetic pulse compression (MPC) based systems [23][24][25][26][27][28]. The comparison of the system, specifically with MPC based systems is done taking in consideration the typical areas of application, with specific emphasis to pulse width, rep-rate and temporal jitter requirement of the output voltage [24,[26][27][28].…”

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Development of 22 kV, 1 kHz rep-rated solid-state pulser based on Linear Transformer Driver topology

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The present manuscripts discusses the development of a forty stage, 22 kV solid-state pulser based on Linear Transformer Driver (LTD) topology employing 240 MOSFET switches operating at rep-rate of 1 kHz. A transformer based triggering scheme is implemented which enables the switches to operate at a jitter of < 5 ns. Each stage drives ∼ 220 A peak pulsed current and the output voltage of forty such stages are inductively added to generate 22 kV across 100 Ω resistive load, having a rise time of ∼ 20 ns. The paper presents the developmental steps, highlighting the temporal jitter characteristics ∼ 5 ns (peak to peak jitter measured at output voltage at load end) demonstrated by the system.

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“…2(a)]. The circuit is designed using the voltage-time product [21] to reach the maximum voltage across C2 at the moment when the magnetic core of the PT saturates. At this moment, C2 starts to discharge through the secondary winding w 2 of the saturated PT, generating the reverse current through the diode.…”

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confidence: 99%