Ys. Lai et al., 500 HZ PICOSECOND INDUCTIVE ENERGY-STORAGE PULSED-POWER SYSTEM USING A HIGH-TC SUPERCONDUCTOR OPENING SWITCH, IEEE photonics technology letters, 6(10), 1994, pp. 1255-1257
A high Tc superconductor opening switch controlled inductive energy st
orage pulsed power system (IESPPS) has been demonstrated. A 500 Hz pul
se train of jitter-free 75-318 ps electrical pulses was produced. We a
lso show that the IESPPS produces a pulse compression ratio of 6-10. C
ompared with previous results, we have reduced the pulse width by a fa
ctor of ten and increased the repetition rate by a factor of 500 while
reducing the laser trigger energy from 1 mJ/pulse to 20 muJ/pulse.