Performance characteristics of an induction linac magnetic pulse compression modulator at multi-kilohertz pulse repetition frequencies

Author

Sampayan, S.E. ; Chambers, F.W. ; Deadrick, F.J. ; Niven, W.A. ; Ollis, C.W. ; Payne, A.N. ; Renbarger, V.L. ; Scharlemann, E.T. ; Turner, W.C. ; Watson, J.A.

Author_Institution

Lawrence Livermore Nat. Lab., CA, USA

fYear

1991

fDate

6-9 May 1991

Firstpage

3097

Abstract

The ETA-II linear induction accelerator utilizes four pulse power conditioning chains. Magnetic pulse compression modulators (MAG1-Ds) form the last state of each chain. The upgrading and characterizing of the power conditioning chain on a high-average-power test stand (HAPTS) is reported. On the HAPTS, the pulse-to-pulse amplitude stability has been improved to less than 0.7% (one sigma) and the random jitter to 3-5 about a systematic timing variation. A description is presented of the work to achieve the desired performance level of the MAG1-D to allow high average power operation of ETA-II.<>

Keywords

collective accelerators; electron accelerators; pulsed power technology; ETA-II; MAG1-D; high-average-power test stand; induction linac; linear induction accelerator; magnetic pulse compression modulator; power conditioning chain; pulse-to-pulse amplitude stability; Cyclic redundancy check; Linear particle accelerator; Magnetic flux; Magnetic modulators; Particle accelerators; Particle beams; Power conditioning; Pulse compression methods; Pulse modulation; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Particle Accelerator Conference, 1991. Accelerator Science and Technology., Conference Record of the 1991 IEEE

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0135-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PAC.1991.165199

Filename

165199