A new laser trigger system for current pulse shaping and jitter reduction on Z

Digest of Technical Papers-IEEE International Pulsed Power Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 179-182

  Bliss, D E ^a   Collins, R T ^a   Dalton, D G ^a   Dawson Jr , E J ^a   Doty, R L ^a   Downey, T L ^a   Harjes, H C ^a   Illescas, E A ^a   Knudson, M D ^a   Lewis, B A ^a   Mills, J A ^a   Ploor, S D ^a   Podsednik, J W ^a   Rogowski, S T ^a   Shams, M S ^a   Struve, K W ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; LASER BEAMS; PHOTODIODES; SHOCK WAVES; TIMING JITTER; TRIGGER CIRCUITS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

LASER TRIGGER SYSTEM (LTS); PULSE SHAPING;

ELECTRIC CURRENTS;

EID: 10744221103     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (9)

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2. Information on the New Wave Tempest Lasers can be found at www.new-wave.com.
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4. S.T. Rogowski, D.E. Bliss, K.W. Struve, "A Study of Timing Jitter Improvements on Z with a new laser trigger system," ibid.
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7. T.D. Pointon, H.C. Harjes, M.E. Savage, D.E. Bliss, R.W. Lemke, "Pulse Shaping of the load current on the Z accerator," ibid.
8. R.Lemke private communication.
9. H.C. Harjes, K.W. Struve, L. Bennett, D.L. Johnson, J. Elizondo, B. Shoup, "Circuit modeling for ZR," In this proceedings.