• DocumentCode
    3373166
  • Title

    Tesla Coil Design for Electron Gun Application

  • Author

    Paraliev, Martin ; Gough, C. ; Ivkovic, S.

  • Author_Institution
    Accel. Div., Paul Scherrer Inst., Villigen
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    13-17 June 2005
  • Firstpage
    1085
  • Lastpage
    1088
  • Abstract
    The current project is to build an electron gun for X-ray free electron laser (XFEL) application. The electron gun will utilize field emission and extreme accelerating gradient to achieve very low emittance. However for long-term study of cathode characteristics, a stable pulsed voltage in the megavolt range is needed. The first project phase is to design and test a 500 kV pulser using a resonant air-core transformer (Tesla coil). Detailed results of simulations with Microwave Studioreg and PSpicereg for various coil geometries, tuning and coupling factors are given, and the optimum values for this application are given. In addition, experimental results are given for the most promising geometries.
  • Keywords
    electron guns; transformer cores; Tesla coil design; X-ray free electron laser; cathode characteristics; electron gun; field emission; resonant air-core transformer; voltage 500 kV; Acceleration; Cathodes; Coils; Electron emission; Free electron lasers; Geometry; Laser applications; Pulse transformers; Testing; X-ray lasers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Pulsed Power Conference, 2005 IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Monterey, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-9189-6
  • Electronic_ISBN
    0-7803-9190-x
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/PPC.2005.300508
  • Filename
    4084410