Published January 2007 | Version v1
Journal article

Bipolar pulse generator for intense pulsed ion beam accelerator

  • 1. Department of Electrical and Electronic System Engineering, University of Toyama, 3190 Gofuku, Toyama 930-8555 (Japan)

Description

A new type of pulsed ion beam accelerator named ''bipolar pulse accelerator'' (BPA) has been proposed in order to improve the purity of intense pulsed ion beams. To confirm the principle of the BPA, we developed a bipolar pulse generator for the bipolar pulse experiment, which consists of a Marx generator and a pulse forming line (PFL) with a rail gap switch on its end. In this article, we report the first experimental result of the bipolar pulse and evaluate the electrical characteristics of the bipolar pulse generator. When the bipolar pulse generator was operated at 70% of the full charge condition of the PFL, the bipolar pulse with the first (-138 kV, 72 ns) and the second pulse (+130 kV, 70 ns) was successfully obtained. The evaluation of the electrical characteristics indicates that the developed generator can produce the bipolar pulse with fast rise time and sharp reversing time

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Journal Title
Review of Scientific Instruments
Journal Volume
78
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 013502-013502.5
ISSN
0034-6748
CODEN
RSINAK

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(c) 2007 American Institute of Physics