Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 9, Issue s1, s10307(2011)

Study on the circuit producing high-speed pulse with high peak current

Deke Yan, Yongsheng Gou, Zhiyuan Song, Chuandong Sun, and Shaolan Zhu

To achieve high peak current with narrow pulse width, the circuit model is analyzed based on a fast and high-power metallic oxide semiconductor field effecttransistor (MOSFET) as the high speed switch of the resistor-capacitor (RC) charge and discharge circuits. It is easy to obtain a narrow high-current pulse by adopting the narrow triggering pulse to control the on-off state of the MOSFET switch, and using the driving pulse to modulate the exponential decay pulse in the RC discharge loop. The procedure for the high speed MOSFET switch is then discussed. To make the speed of the MOSFET switch as quick as possible, the push-pull driving circuit for the grid of the MOSFET is brought forward and the circuit for producing the narrow trigger pulse is designed. The experimental result shows that the full width at half maximum (FWHM) of the trigger pulse is about 500 ps when the narrow trigger pulse is connected with the discharge return circuit. Measured results demonstrate that the RC discharge loop produces a narrow high-current pulse, with a peak current of up to 92.5 A and FWHM of 6.2 ns. After adjusting relevant parameters, the peak current could reach up to 115.9 A. However, the corresponding pulse width is broadened. Finally, influencing factors on the narrow pulse width for the discharge loop are briefly analyzed.

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Deke Yan, Yongsheng Gou, Zhiyuan Song, Chuandong Sun, Shaolan Zhu, "Study on the circuit producing high-speed pulse with high peak current," Chin. Opt. Lett. 9, s10307 (2011)

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Paper Information

Category: High Speed Diagnostics, Image Processing, and Data Analysis

Received: Dec. 9, 2010

Accepted: Jan. 25, 2011

Published Online: Jul. 7, 2011

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DOI:10.3788/col201109.s10307

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