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Optically induced surface flashover switching for the dielectric wall accelerator

Year: 2002

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: Fast, low jitter command triggered switching is key to the successful implementation of the dielectric wall accelerator (DWA). We are studying a UV induced vacuum surface flashover switch for this purpose. We present our initial data using a Nd:YAG (/spl lambda/=0.06 nm) laser incident onto a high gradient insulator surface at 1/spl omega/, 2/spl omega/, 3/spl omega/, and 4/spl omega/. Best 1/spl sigma/ jitter was <1 ns with no degradation of the switch after 500 shots.

Source: Particle Accelerator Conference (PAC)

DOI: 10.1109/pac.1995.505475

Authors: S. Sampayan, G. Caporaso, B. Carder, M. Norton, D. Trimble, J. Elizondo

Institutions: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Voss Scientific (United States)

Language: English

Topic: Pulsed Power Technology Applications

Subfield: Control and Systems Engineering

Field: Engineering

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W1920002845

FWCI: 0.814

Cites: 4

Cited by: 19

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