Effects of Optical Pulse Parameters on a Pulsed UV-Illuminated Switch and Their Adjusting Methods

Junna Li; Weiqing Chen; Zhiqiang Chen; Junping Tang; Wei Jia; Fan Guo; Tian Yang; Aici Qiu; Junping Zhao; Qiaogen Zhang

doi:10.1109/TPS.2015.2457955

Effects of Optical Pulse Parameters on a Pulsed UV-Illuminated Switch and Their Adjusting Methods

Junna Li
, Weiqing Chen
, Zhiqiang Chen
, Junping Tang
, Wei Jia
, Fan Guo
, Tian Yang
, Aici Qiu
, Junping Zhao
, Qiaogen Zhang

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Abstract

Ultraviolet (UV) illumination can effectively shorten the statistical lag and jitter in gas breakdown processes. The spark gap discharge can produce abundant spectrum including UV waveband. In this paper, a simple but reliable spark gap operating with N₂ at atmospheric pressure is used to test optical radiation characteristics, such as spectrum intensity, rise time, fall time, and duration of optical pulse, which are adjusted by changing the circuit or configuration parameters. Three UV-illuminated switches with different UV spark gap configurations have been tested. The experimental results approve our assumption. With a uniform electric field UV spark gap, the breakdown voltage standard deviation percentage of the switch is 0.74%.

Original language	English
Article number	7177097
Pages (from-to)	3293-3297
Number of pages	5
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science
Volume	43
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TPS.2015.2457955
State	Published - 1 Sep 2015
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Breakdown characteristics
jitter
optical pulse parameter
pulsed power technology
pulsed switch
ultraviolet (UV) illumination

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