Stepped Impedance Magnetic Compression Line Pulse Generator

Author

Kuthi, Andras ; Sanders, Jason M.

Author_Institution

Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Volume

42

Issue

4

fYear

2014

fDate

Apr-14

Firstpage

984

Lastpage

987

Abstract

A novel and 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 provided the cell capacitances are in a certain fixed sequence independent of the cell inductances. The use of precharge voltage and proper capacitance sequence in such stepped impedance magnetic compression line provides voltage multiplication in addition to pulse compression.

Keywords

lumped parameter networks; pulse compression; pulse generators; capacitance sequence; initially charged lumped element transmission line; magnetic compression; precharge voltage; pulse compression; saturable inductor switches; stepped impedance transmission line pulse generator circuit; voltage multiplication; Capacitance; Capacitors; Impedance; Inductors; Magnetic circuits; Magnetic cores; Saturation magnetization; Energy transfer; magnetic compression; minimum core volume; voltage multiplication; voltage multiplication.;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Plasma Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0093-3813

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TPS.2014.2306196

Filename

6748960