Stepped impedance magnetic compression modulator

Author

Kuthi, A. ; Sanders, J.M. ; Gundersen, M.A.

Author_Institution

Viterbi Sch. of Eng., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

fYear

2014

fDate

22-24 April 2014

Firstpage

193

Lastpage

194

Abstract

A novel, improved magnetic compression based stepped impedance transmission line pulse generator circuit is presented. It is shown that discharging an initially charged lumped element transmission line with saturable inductor switches in each cell can result in complete energy transfer between cells of different capacitances provided the cell capacitances are in a certain fixed sequence independent of the cell inductances. The use of pre-charge voltage in such stepped impedance magnetic compression line provides voltage multiplication in addition to pulse compression without the use of transformers.

Keywords

pulse compression; pulse generators; cell capacitances; cell inductances; complete energy transfer; lumped element transmission line; pre-charge voltage; pulse compression; saturable inductor switches; stepped impedance magnetic compression line; stepped impedance magnetic compression modulator; stepped impedance transmission line pulse generator circuit; voltage multiplication; Capacitance; Capacitors; Impedance; Inductors; Magnetic circuits; Magnetic cores; Saturation magnetization; Magnetic compression; energy transfer; minimum core volume; voltage multiplication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vacuum Electronics Conference, IEEE International

Conference_Location

Monterey, CA

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IVEC.2014.6857556

Filename

6857556