A High Repetition Rate Battery-Powered 0.5 MV Pulser for Ultrawideband Radiation

Author

Sarkar, Partha ; Novac, Bucur M. ; Smith, Ivor R. ; Miller, Richard A. ; Craven, Richard M. ; Braidwood, Sean W.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Loughborough Univ.

fYear

2006

fDate

14-18 May 2006

Firstpage

592

Lastpage

595

Abstract

High power electromagnetic pulses are of importance in a variety of applications such as transient radar, when investigating the effect of strong radio-frequency impulses on electronic systems and modern bio-medical technology. The paper presents details for a compact, battery powered, repetitive pulser, which is capable of producing nanosecond rise-time pulses at voltages exceeding 0.5 MV. The system is based on a Tesla transformer operating in a dual-resonance mode, with a high energy transfer efficiency between the primary and secondary circuits. To obtain a high pulse repetition frequency of at least 1 kHz, the key component is a closing switch in the primary circuit working on the principle of corona stabilization

Keywords

corona; electromagnetic pulse; power transformers; Tesla transformer; corona stabilization; dual-resonance mode; electronic systems; high energy transfer; high power electromagnetic pulses; modern biomedical technology; nanosecond rise-time pulse; primary-secondary circuits; pulse repetition frequency; radio-frequency impulse; repetitive pulser; ultrawideband radiation; Batteries; Electromagnetic radiation; Electromagnetic transients; Energy exchange; Pulse circuits; Pulse transformers; Radar applications; Radio frequency; Switches; Ultra wideband technology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Modulator Symposium, 2006. Conference Record of the 2006 Twenty-Seventh International

Conference_Location

Arlington, VA

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0018-X

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0019-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MODSYM.2006.365322

Filename

4216274