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

B.M. Novac , R. Xiao , T. Huiskamp , Laurent Pecastaing (1) , M. Wang , P. Senior , Antoine Silvestre de Ferron (1) , A.J.M. Pemen , Marc Rivaletto (2)

1 SIAME - Laboratoire des Sciences de l'Ingénieur Appliquées à la Mécanique et au génie Electrique
2 UPPA - Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour

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.

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

Domains: Physics [physics]

B.M. Novac, R. 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⟩