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Recent developments in e-beam excited laser systems have led to a requirement for very fast rise and fall time, short pulse, low impedance e-beam generators. Advances in low impedance e-beam generator technology to meet this requirement are discussed. Two advanced design machines have been built — a 2 MeV, 200 kA generator with 10–90% rise and fall times of 10 ns, and a 1 MeV, 100 kA generator with rise and fall times of less than 5 ns. The design of these machines and their measured output characteristics are presented in this paper.
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Harrison, J., Miller, R., Shannon, J., Smith, J.B. (1976). Design of Very Fast Rise and Fall Time, Low Impedance Megavolt Pulse Generators for Laser Excitation. In: Bostick, W.H., Nardi, V., Zucker, O.S.F. (eds) Energy Storage, Compression, and Switching. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-2214-6_7
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