Nonlinear high voltage transmission line for transversely excited CO{sub 2} lasers
- Toshiba Corp., Kanagawa (Japan); and others
A high voltage Pulse with the risetime less than a few hundreds nanoseconds and the amplitude of several tens kilovolts is required to establish stable glow discharge excitation in high power pulsed gas lasers. To make the high voltage pulse fast, we have developed a nonlinear high voltage transmission line for transversely excited CO{sub 2} lasers. Fig.1 shows the electrical circuit of switching unit, pulse sharpening unit with nonlinear high voltage transmission line and discharge electrodes for TE-CO{sub 2} laser. The nonlinear high voltage transmission line is a 15-step LC ladder circuit that consists of linear inductors (L=6 {mu}H) and nonlinear BaTiO{sub 3} capacitors. Fig.2 shows a capacitance dependence on applied voltages. If an LC ladder circuit is constructed using a capacitor with the characteristics, the transmission velocity is fast at the high-voltage section and is slow at the low-voltage section. High voltage pulse with slow risetime is expected to be sharpen. The voltage and the current waveforms of the discharge measured at the point {open_quotes}c{close_quotes}. The risetime of 1{mu}s of the input voltage pulse was compressed to less than 200 ns at the output terminal of the LC ladder circuit and the outout pulse was applied to the discharge gap of the laser.
- OSTI ID:
- 232874
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-950749--
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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