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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 24, 2015
Sandia Corporation, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Brian S. Stoltzfus, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Kevin Austin, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Brian Thomas Hutsel, Sandia Park, NM (US);
David Reisman, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Mark E. Savage, Albuquerque, NM (US);
William A. Stygar, Albuquerque, NM (US);
National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Abstract
A variable-pulse-shape pulsed-power accelerator is driven by a large number of independent LC drive circuits. Each LC circuit drives one or more coaxial transmission lines that deliver the circuit's output power to several water-insulated radial transmission lines that are connected in parallel at small radius by a water-insulated post-hole convolute. The accelerator can be impedance matched throughout. The coaxial transmission lines are sufficiently long to transit-time isolate the LC drive circuits from the water-insulated transmission lines, which allows each LC drive circuit to be operated without being affected by the other circuits. This enables the creation of any power pulse that can be mathematically described as a time-shifted linear combination of the pulses of the individual LC drive circuits. Therefore, the output power of the convolute can provide a variable pulse shape to a load that can be used for magnetically driven, quasi-isentropic compression experiments and other applications.