Design of a power amplifier for the LAMPF proton storage ring transverse damper system
A power amplifier has been designed to drive the 50-..cap omega.. stripline deflection structures in the transverse active damper of the Los Alamos 800-MeV Proton Storage Ring (PSR). The unit will provide 600-V peak-to-peak with a dc-to-100-MHz bandwidth. Other important characteristics include < 40-ns delay time, 50-dB voltage gain, and 4-ns risetime with < 5% overshoot and ringing. Because of the current-drive properties of the amplifier, two amplifiers could be combined to provide over 1000-V peak-to-peak into 50 ..cap omega.., with very little bandwidth degradation. Components in the power amplifier that represent new designs are a 20-tube distributed-amplifier output stage; a driver stage, using VMOS FET and bipolar transistors; a high-voltage probe, with good dc stability and 150-MHz bandwidth; a transient suppressor circuit, using PIN diodes to protect the transistorized drivers from tube arcing; a nonlinear amplifier to compensate for the nonlinear characteristics of the distributed amplifier; and a first-fail indicator circuit to aid in locating the prime causes of equipment failures.
- Research Organization:
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-36
- OSTI ID:
- 6648427
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-81-525; CONF-810314-8; TRN: 81-004878
- Resource Relation:
- Journal Volume: 28; Journal Issue: 3; Conference: Particle accelerator conference, Washington, DC, USA, 11 Mar 1981
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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