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The results from an investigation into the performance of a fuse opening switch, to be used as a component of a compact power conditioning unit, PCU, in an explosively driven high power microwave system, is presented. A pulse forming network designed to mimic the current action of a flux compression generator is utilized for these experiments. The investigation focused on the effect of altering fu...Show More
Exploding wire arrays as fast switches are of interest for explosive pulsed power applications utilizing magnetic flux compression. This type of opening switch has proven effective in producing pulses of several hundred kilovolts into vacuum diode loads. The research presented here discusses an exploding wire array capable of producing single digit kilo-joules, 100 nanosecond pulses when driven by...Show More
The generation of high power microwaves using explosively driven pulsed power is of particular interest to the defense community. The high energy density of explosives provides the opportunity to design pulsed power systems which occupy significantly less volume, yet provide the same output power, as traditional methods of high power microwave (HPM) production. Utilizing a flux compression generat...Show More
This paper discusses a non-explosive pulsed power device used to reproduce the output waveforms of a Flux Compression Generator (FCG) driving a High Power Microwave (HPM) source. This system optimizes the power conditioning components of a HPM source while reducing the time and resources inherent to explosively driven FCG schemes. An energy storage inductor, fuse opening switch, and a peaking gap ...Show More
This paper presents a nonexplosive pulsed-power system that replicates the output current waveform of a flux compression generator (FCG). The primary purpose of this system is to efficiently test the power conditioning components of an explosively driven HPM system, while drastically reducing the time between tests which are inherent with explosive experiments. The power conditioning system (PCS) ...Show More