An Optically Triggered, Glow Switch Marx Bank

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 1990, Pages 1591-1593

  Liou, R ^a   F1Gueroa, H ^a   Hsu, Y ^a   Kirkman, G ^a   Gundersen, M A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC SWITCHES; ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS, SWITCHING; FIBER OPTICS; OPTICAL DEVICES;

BACK-LIGHTED THYRATRONS; HIGH-POWER LASERS; LIGHT-TRIGGERED SWITCHES; MARX GENERATORS; POWER MODULATOR; THREE-STAGE MARX BANK;

ELECTRON TUBES, THYRATRON;

EID: 0025444861     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: 15579646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/16.106262     Document Type: Article

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