Aurora Synchronization Improvement

The Aurora flash x-ray simulator has undergone a series of hardware upgrades over the past five years. The upgrades have improved simulator reliability and have provided new environments for hardness testing. Recently, synchronization of the four pulse-forming lines (PFLs) has been significantly imp...

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Published inEighth IEEE International Conference on Pulsed Power pp. 924 - 927
Main Authors Weidenheimer, D.M., Pereira, N.R., Judy, D.C.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 1991
Subjects
Cables
Diodes
Electrodes
Joining processes
Oscilloscopes
Petroleum
Pulse generation
Switches
Threshold voltage
Timing
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Summary:The Aurora flash x-ray simulator has undergone a series of hardware upgrades over the past five years. The upgrades have improved simulator reliability and have provided new environments for hardness testing. Recently, synchronization of the four pulse-forming lines (PFLs) has been significantly improved over the original design. The four parallel PFLs are now synchronized to within 10 ns over 60% of the shots. This paper describes the current switching scheine, reports the current timing statistics, and discusses the effects of improved synchronization on hardness test parameters such as shot to shot, reproducibility of the dose.
ISBN:9780780301771
0780301773
DOI:10.1109/PPC.1991.733434