Generation of Intense PEFs Using a Prolate Spheroidal Reflector Attached to the Bipolar Former of a 10-GW Pulsed Power Generator

B.M. Novac , R. Xiao , P. Senior , Laurent Pecastaing (1) , I.R. Smith

1 SIAME - Laboratoire des Sciences de l'Ingénieur Appliquées à la Mécanique et au génie Electrique

A prolate spheroidal reflector was designed, manufactured, and attached to a bipolar former at the output of a 10-GW-Tesla-driven Blumlein pulsed power generator. The reflector, operated in water, is capable of producing intense pulsed electric fields of the order of 50 kV/cm. Constructional details are provided, together with experimental results, and a detailed analysis using 3-D software modeling of the reflector that provides results in good agreement with experimental data. \textcopyright 1973-2012 IEEE.

Keywords: Antenna; pulse compression circuits; pulse modulation; pulsed electric fields (PEFs); pulsed power systems

Domains: Physics [physics]

B.M. Novac, R. Xiao, P. Senior, Laurent Pecastaing, I.R. Smith. Generation of Intense PEFs Using a Prolate Spheroidal Reflector Attached to the Bipolar Former of a 10-GW Pulsed Power Generator. IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, 2018, 46 (10), pp.3547-3551. ⟨10.1109/TPS.2018.2844160⟩. ⟨hal-02146093⟩