Development leading to a 200 kV, 20 kA, 30 Hertz radar-like modulator system for intense ion beam processing

Author

Reass, W. ; Davis, H. ; Olson, J. ; Coates, D. ; Schleinitz, H.

Author_Institution

Los Alamos Nat. Lab., NM, USA

fYear

1996

fDate

25-27 Jun 1996

Firstpage

97

Lastpage

100

Abstract

This paper presents the electrical system design methodology which the authors are developing for use in the Los Alamos “CHAMP” (continuous high-average power microsecond pulser) program. CHAMP is a magnetically confined anode plasma diode (MAP diode) intense ion source. The CHAMP diode ion source requires many synchronous modulator sub-systems slaved to that required by the diode discharge itself (200 kV, 20 kA). In addition to overall CHAMP diode system requirements, the design of the pertinent electrical pulse modulator systems is also presented

Keywords

modulators; plasma confinement; plasma diodes; power supplies to apparatus; pulse generators; pulsed power technology; 20 kA; 200 kV; 30 Hz; CHAMP programme; continuous high-average power microsecond pulser; electrical system design; intense ion beam processing; pulsed power generators; radar-like power modulator system; Anodes; Coils; Diodes; Intensity modulation; Ion beams; Magnetic confinement; Optical modulation; Pulse modulation; Pulse transformers; Thyratrons;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Modulator Symposium, 1996., Twenty-Second International

Conference_Location

Boca Raton, FL

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3076-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MODSYM.1996.564460

Filename

564460