Theoretical and Experimental Studies of Off-the-Shelf V-Dot Probes

Bucur Mircea Novac (1, 2) , Renzhen Xiao (3) , T. Huiskamp (4) , Laurent Pecastaing (2) , M. Wang (1) , Peter Senior (5) , Antoine Silvestre de Ferron (2) , A.J.M. Pemen (4) , Marc Rivaletto (2)

1 Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering [Loughborough]
2 SIAME - Laboratoire des Sciences de l'Ingénieur Appliquées à la Mécanique et au génie Electrique
3 NINT - Northwest Institute of Nuclear Technology [Xi'an]
4 TU/e - Eindhoven University of Technology [Eindhoven]
5 Loughborough University

This paper introduces the work undertaken to reliably use off-the-shelf differentiating voltage probes attached to coaxial transmission lines. The results obtained prove that indeed such probes are a valid and simple instrument for measuring nanosecond and subnanosecond voltage impulses. As a bonus, this paper also highlighted an important challenging phenomenon that appears whenever an attempt is made to measure fast voltage impulses with a differentiating probe positioned too close to the closing switch of a pulse forming line generator. \textcopyright 1973-2012 IEEE.

Mots clés: Pulse forming lines (PFLs); pulsed-power systems; voltage probes

Domaines: Physique [physics]

Bucur Mircea Novac, Renzhen Xiao, T. Huiskamp, Laurent Pecastaing, M. Wang, et al.. Theoretical and Experimental Studies of Off-the-Shelf V-Dot Probes. IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, 2018, 46 (8), pp.2985-2992. ⟨10.1109/TPS.2018.2854971⟩. ⟨hal-02146092⟩