Some High Voltage Pulse Techniques in Use at Argonne

Instrumentation requirements at Argonne have necessitated the development of circuits capable of delivering megawatt-level pulses into various types of loads. The allowed delay time between the command signal and the output pulse has ranged from a few nanoseconds to a few microseconds and the allowed time jitter has generally been in the low nanosecond region. This report will consider some of the components and circuits and some of the system design concepts in current use at Argonne for high voltage-high current pulse instrumentation.