2016 IEEE Power Modulator and High Voltage Conference

High Power Microwave Production with a Nanosecond Pulser and Nonlinear Transmission Line

6 Jul 2016, 13:30

1h 30m

Twin Peaks (Palace Hotel San Francisco)

Poster Presentation Repetitive Pulsed Power Systems, Repetitive Pulsed Magnetics, Accelerators, Beams, High Power Microwaves, and High Power Pulse Antennas Poster 1-A

Speaker

James Prager (Eagle Harbor Technologies, Inc.)

Description

Eagle Harbor Technologies, Inc. (EHT) is utilizing the previously developed EHT Nanosecond Pulser (NSP) to drive a nonlinear transmission line (NLTL) for high power microwave production. The EHT NSP provides independent control of the output voltage (20 kV), pulse width (20 – 200 ns), and pulse repetition frequency (up to 100 kHz). EHT is using this pulser to investigate RF production with a gyromagnetic NLTL and lumped-element NLTL based on nonlinear effects in Schottky diodes. The gyromagnetic NLTL has a frequency around 2 GHz, while the diode-based NLTL’s frequency is lower. EHT will present experimental, including RF measurements with D-dot probes. Additionally, modeling results will be presented for the diode-based NLTL and compared with experiment.