Pulse power technology application to lasers
Abstract
Recent developments of intense relativistic electron beam accelerators and the associated pulse power technology are reviewed. The design of specific accelerators for gas laser excitation sources is discussed. A 3 MV, 800 kA, 24 ns electron beam accelerator under development for the electron beam fusion program is described along with the low jitter multichannel oil-dielectric rail switches developed for this application. This technology leads to the design of a 20 kJ, short pulse accelerator optimized gas laser excitation with radially converging electron beams. Other gas laser research requirements have led to the development of an accelerator that will produce a 0.5 MV, 20 kJ, 1 mu s electron beam pulse.
- Publication:
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Presented at Intern. Laser Exposition and Electro-Optics 1975
- Pub Date:
- 1975
- Bibcode:
- 1975leeo.conf.....P
- Keywords:
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- Electron Accelerators;
- Gas Lasers;
- Pulsed Lasers;
- Electron Beams;
- Excitation;
- Laser Applications;
- Nuclear Fusion;
- Lasers and Masers