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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 20, 1983
Filed:
Jul. 21, 1981
Peter J Turchi, Alexandria, VA (US);
Ihor M Vitkovitsky, Silver Spring, MD (US);
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
An MPD intense beam pulser for generating high voltage, intense charged picle beams utilizing an electromechanical energy source and inductive energy storage in combination with a plasma opening switch including a source of directed plasma flow, a diode for accelerating particles in the plasma flowing from the source, and a plasma flow truncation circuit. In operation, a controlled plasma flow is used to conduct current from the energy source in order to supply a desired amount of energy to the magnetic field in the volume surrounding the plasma flow. Truncation of the plasma flow between the electrodes forming the diode then provides a high voltage in a short pulse which generates a high energy charged particle beam. Thus, the magnetic energy store surrounding the diode plasma flow is coupled directly to the intense particle beam.