Progress toward a compact, high power ultra-wideband array using gallium arsenide photoconductive semiconductor switches

J. M. Lehr; M. D. Abdalla; J. S.H. Schoenberg; M. C. Skipper; J. S. Tyo; J. W. Burger

Progress toward a compact, high power ultra-wideband array using gallium arsenide photoconductive semiconductor switches

J. M. Lehr, M. D. Abdalla, J. S.H. Schoenberg, M. C. Skipper, J. S. Tyo, J. W. Burger

Optical Sciences, College of

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There is considerable demand within the technical applications community for sources which produce high power transient radiation. Currently, lateral geometry high power photoconductive semiconductor switches (PCSS) are being developed for use in phased array, ultra-wideband sources. The present source configuration is a stacked blumlein configuration commuted with a PCSS. A new liquid insulating media, HFE-7100, has been demonstrated to have an equivalent voltage hold off capability as sulphur hexafluoride, but with greater compatibility to gallium arsenide. Independent low jitter PCSS operation is demonstrated by coupling two independent blumleins into a common load. Measurements of both the system jitter and the isolated jitter of the PCSS switch has been performed.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	156-159
Number of pages	4
Journal	IEEE Conference Record of Power Modulator Symposium
State	Published - 1998
Event	Proceedings of the 1998 23rd International Power Modulator Symposium - Rancho Mirage, CA, USA Duration: Jun 21 1998 → Jun 25 1998

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