Falcon: an inductive store/opening switch x-ray simulator test bed

Sincerny, P.; Krishnan, M.; Drury, D.; Arnold, Steve; Roth, I.; James, G.; Warren, T.; McDonald, Colin F.

doi:10.1109/ppc.1989.767581

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“…An energy upgrade study has been completed which defines a design that will increase the energy output of the PFL system as well as improve the transport efficiency of this energy to the inductive store. Data on long pulse POS conduction [2] has demonstrated conduction times to 100 ns, which allows the removal of a stage of pulse compression to increase the energy output of the PBFA I1 PFL system. Improved energy transport from the modified PFL's to the vacuum stack has been accomplished through the use of an abrupt coax-to-disk transition and disk transformer system which was suggested by an analysis of the dominant losses in the present PBFA I1 flat-plate transmission system [3].…”

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A pulsed-power upgrade study of PBFA II based on a closed disk transmission system

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Neau³

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7th Pulsed Power Conference

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A coax-to-disk transition and disk transformer system has been designed as a possible replacement for the coax-to-flat plate transformer and cross-over system of the Particle Beam Fusion Accelerator I1 (PBFA 11). Together with a simplification of the coaxial pulseforming lines (PFL's), this predominately closed geometry system increases the energy available for ICF experiments by greater than 50%. Analytical techniques have been combined with single-module scale model experiments and TEM circuit simulations to develop a design that maximizes the energy transport efficiency through the new transmission-line system.Multi-module scale model experiments and 2-D timedependent electromagnetic simulations have verified these techniques can accurately project the energy transfer efficiency and thereby be used to predict full-scale performance.

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confidence: 99%