• DocumentCode
    780115
  • Title

    Observations of Light Emission From the Surface of the Paraxial Diode Cathode Fielded on the Superswarf 5-MV Pulsed Power Accelerator

  • Author

    Cooper, Graham ; McLean, John ; Martin, Philip ; Davitt, Rick ; Stuart, Kevin

  • Author_Institution
    Pulsed Power Group, Atomic Weapons Establ., Reading
  • Volume
    36
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    2008
  • Firstpage
    1278
  • Lastpage
    1279
  • Abstract
    Light from the region around a cathode in a radiographic diode, used for the generation of X-rays, was imaged using a gated camera array. Optical images of the resulting plasma are presented in this paper.
  • Keywords
    cathodes; plasma X-ray sources; plasma diodes; X-ray generation; gated camera array; light emission; paraxial diode cathode; radiographic diode; superswarf pulsed power accelerator; voltage 5 MV; Emission; X-ray production;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Plasma Science, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0093-3813
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TPS.2008.925720
  • Filename
    4558023