High current Linear Transformer Driver (LTD) experiments

Author

Mazarakis, Michael G. ; Fowler, William E. ; McDaniel, Dillon H. ; Olson, Craig L. ; Rogowski, Sonrisa T. ; Sharpe, Robin A. ; Struve, Kenneth W. ; Stygar, William A. ; Kim, Alexander A. ; Sinebryukhov, Vadim A. ; Gilgenbach, Ronald M. ; Gomez, Matthew R.

Author_Institution

Sandia National Laboratories Albuquerque, N.M. 87185 USA

Volume

1

fYear

2007

fDate

17-22 June 2007

Firstpage

222

Lastpage

225

Abstract

Sandia Laboratories are actively pursuing the development of new accelerators based on the novice technology of Linear Transformer Driver (LTD) [1,2,3]. LTD based drivers are considered for many applications including future very high current Z-pinch ICF (Inertial Confinement Fusion) drivers like ZX and Z-pinch IFE (Inertial Fusion Energy). The high current LTD driver experimental research is concentrated on two aspects; first to study the repetition rate capabilities, life time and jitter of the LTD cavities, and second to study how a number of cavities behave and add their energy, power and voltage output in a voltage adder configuration assembly.

Keywords

Adders; Contracts; Driver circuits; Jitter; Laboratories; Prototypes; Pulse measurements; Switches; Testing; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Pulsed Power Conference, 2007 16th IEEE International

Conference_Location

Albuquerque, NM

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0913-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-0914-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PPPS.2007.4651826

Filename

4651826