LOW-COST ELECTRON-GUN PULSER FOR TABLE-TOP MASER EXPERIMENTS

Authors
GRINBERG V JERBY E SHAHADI A
Citation
V. Grinberg et al., LOW-COST ELECTRON-GUN PULSER FOR TABLE-TOP MASER EXPERIMENTS, Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment, 358(1-3), 1995, pp. 327-330
Citations number
12
Categorie Soggetti
Nuclear Sciences & Tecnology","Physics, Particles & Fields","Instument & Instrumentation",Spectroscopy
Journal title
Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment → ACNP
ISSN journal
01689002
Volume
358
Issue
1-3
Year of publication
1995
Pages
327 - 330
Database
ISI
SICI code
0168-9002(1995)358:1-3<327:LEPFTM>2.0.ZU;2-6
Abstract
A simple 10 kV electron-gun pulser for small-scale maser experiments i s presented. This low-cost pulser has operated successfully in various table-top cyclotron-resonance maser (CRM) and free-electron maser (FE M) experiments. It consists of a low-voltage capacitor bank, an SCR co ntrol circuit and a transformer bank (car ignition coils) connected di rectly to the e-gun. The pulser produces a current of 3 A at 10 kV vol tage in a Gaussian like shape of 1 ms pulse width. The voltage sweep d uring the pulse provides a useful tool to locate resonances of CRM and FEM interactions. Analytical expressions for the pulser design and ex perimental measurements are presented.