Performance characteristics of an induction linac magnetic pulse compression modulator at multi-kilohertz pulse repetition frequencies

摘要

The ETA-II linear induction accelerator utilizes four pulse power conditioning chains. Magnetic pulse compression modulators (MAG1-Ds) form the last stage of each chain. A single power conditioning chain is used to drive the injector; the remaining three are used to drive 60 accelerator cells. Nominal parameters of the MAG1-D are an output voltage of greater than 120 kV, pulse width of 70 ns, and an output impedance of 2 ohms. Our operations goal for ETA-II is stable high average power operation at 5 kHz PRF. We have begun upgrading and characterizing the power conditioning chain on our High Average Power Test Stand (HAPTS). On HAPTS, the pulse to pulse amplitude stability has been improved to less than 0.7% (one sigma) and of order 3-5 ns random jitter about a systematic timing variation. In this paper we describe the status of our work to achieve the this paper we describe the status of our work to achieve the average power operation of ETA-II