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A Solid-State Nanosecond Beam Kicker Modulator Based on the Dsrd Switch R SLAC-PUB-14418 A SOLID-STATE NANOSECOND BEAM KICKER MODULATOR BASED ON THE DSRD SWITCH R. Akre, A. Benwell, C. Burkhart, A.Krasnykh, T. Tang, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California, 94025 A. Kardo-Sysoev, Ioffe Physical Technical Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia Abstract A fast solid-state beam kicker modulator is under development at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. The program goal is to develop a modulator that will deliver 4 ns, ±5 kV pulses to the ATF2 damping ring beam extraction kicker. The kicker is a 50 Ω, bi- Figure 1: The DSRD kicker circuit. polar strip line, 60 cm long, fed at the downstream end Table 1: Modulator circuit specifications and terminated at the upstream end. The bunch spacing in the ring is 5.6 ns, bunches are removed from the back end Parameter Value of the train, and there is a gap of 103.6 ns before the next V 100 – 1000 V train. The modulator design is based on an opening Charge switch topology that uses Drift Step Recovery Diodes as C0 300 nF the opening switches. The design and results of the C 200 pF modulator development are discussed. Sw1 CSw2 400 pF INTRODUCTION L1 200 nH There are many applications that benefit from very fast high power switching. However, at MW power levels and C1 1 – 10 nF nanosecond time scales, solid state options are limited. LT 90 nH One option, the Drift Step Recovery Diode (DSRD) has 50 Ω been demonstrated as capable of blocking thousands of ZT Ω volts and switching in nanosecond to sub-nanosecond RL 50 ranges [1-4]. When used as an opening switch, the DSRD exhibits a arrangement of the MOSFETs in the array. Switch Sw is very fast turn off transient. The process is described in 1 composed of 2 series by 2 parallel MOSFETs and Sw2 is detail by its pioneers in [5,6]. In essence, charge is composed of 2 series by 4 parallel MOSFETs. Each pumped into and then extracted from the DSRD under switch array is capable of blocking 2 kV. pulsed conditions. The turn off transient occurs precisely The DSRD kicker operates in 3 distinct stages. At the when the pumped charge is equal to the extracted charge beginning of stage one, capacitor C has been DC charged and the DSRD is switched off. 0 to VCharge. Switch Sw1 is then closed while Sw2 remains At the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, a DSRD open. Capacitance C1 is resonantly charged through the is being used as an opening switch in the development of forward biased DSRD and voltage across RLoad remains a fast kicker modulator. The modulator is designed to very low. Capacitive voltage doubling is observed on C . Ω 1 create ±5kV pulses with <1ns rise and fall time on a 50 The DSRD is pumped with charge under this forward strip line kicker. As is common in beam optics, the biased state. DSRD current, shown in blue in Figure 2, absence of power in the kicker before and after the pulse returns to zero amps at time T1/2 as calculated in Eqn 1. is very important. The entire ±5kV kicker modulator is At this time Sw is switched opened and Sw is closed. composed of two identical 5kV pulsing circuits, each with 1 2 T its own DSRD component. This paper describes the 1 π ()⋅+= CLL (1) modulator topology and the status of tests on one of the 2 121 two 5kV pulse circuits. At the beginning of the second stage, current resonantly flowing out of capacitance C1 is shunted to ground MODULATOR CIRCUIT through Sw2. This current forms the extraction of charge Each 5 kV pulser uses a resonant circuit to pump the from the DSRD. The DSRD current, now shown in red in DSRD and then extract the charge producing the turn off Figure 2, reaches its maximum value at time T2/4, transient effect. This circuit is shown in Figure 1. calculated in Eqn. 2. During stage two, energy is stored Switches Sw1 and Sw2 are composed of high voltage, in the inductance of transmission line TL1. low inductance MOSFET arrays. They are used to pump π T2 the DSRD and remove residual energy. The parasitic ⋅= CL (2) 4 2 11 capacitance of the switch array, CSw, is determined by the Work supported in part by US Department of Energy contract DE-AC02-76SF00515. 100 500 50 0 -500 0 5 10 15 0 0 50 100 150 -1000 -50 voltage (V) voltage -1500 -100 DSRD charging -2000 current (A) current -150 DSRD discharge -2500 output pulse time (ns) -200 load current 500 -250 time (ns) 0 0 50 100 150 Figure 2: Simulated current at various points in the DSRD -500 modulator. -1000 (V) voltage -1500 Stage three begins when the DSRD is depleted of the pumped charge and abruptly turns off. The energy stored -2000 as current in the 2 ns transmission line TL1 is commutated -2500 time (ns) from the DSRD to transmission line TL2, and is reflected toward the load by low impedance of C1 and Sw2. The output pulse, shown in green in Figure 2, is half of the Figure 3: Measured voltage produced by the DSRD peak current and twice the electrical length of TL1. modulator at two different time scale resolutions Ω Current propagates through the 50 kicker to the matched demonstrating a) fast rise time and b) absence of residual impedance load. The load current, shown in purple in power at the kicker. Figure 2, is absorbed by the load resistance. A load current of 100A corresponds with 5kV at the kicker. 2500 TESTS Tests on the described kicker modulator are underway 2000 to validate and refine the circuit. Several key parameters Series1 were varied to control the operating characteristics of the 1500 Series2 circuit. The most direct parameter, V , was used to Charge 1000 increase the output voltage of the circuit. VCharge was Series3 increased up to the point at which Sw and Sw were over 1 2 500 Series4 stressed by voltage. Generally VCharge was limited to 1kV DSRD outputDSRD voltage (V) or less. This was because during stage 2, voltage across 0 Sw1 was observed to oscillate about the charge voltage with amplitude equal to two times the charge voltage. 0 500 1000 1500 This oscillation was produced by the LCL circuit formed charge voltage (V) between the storage capacitance, the switch parasitic Figure 4: Measured peak voltage produced by the DSRD capacitance and inductance L1. On several occasions Sw1 modulator. failed due to overvoltage. The load voltage was measured with a 50Ω high 1 kV, which is at the very upper stress limit of the circuit voltage attenuator. Figure 3 shows the measured output design. voltage for two separate tests at different time resolution To gauge the performance of the circuit, a comparison scales. The peak voltage was about 2 kV and the 10-90% between DSRD current and output voltage was sought. In rise time of the voltage was 1.4 ns. After the voltage order to measure current, the DSRD was replaced in the pulse, the voltage at the 50Ω load remained very low circuit with a low resistance current viewing resistor demonstrating low residual power. (CVR). Unfortunately, this meant that the DSRD output Figure 4 shows the output voltage produced by the voltage could not be measured simultaneously with output current, so measurements were made separately and then kicker modulator while increasing VCharge on capacitance compared. An example of measured DSRD current is C0, an output voltage as high as 2.2 kV was recorded. The 2.2 kV output was measured with a charge voltage of shown in Figure 5. Initially the current is positive when the DSRD would be undergoing pumping. The extraction (negative) current is much greater in amplitude due to the Similar current measurements were made over a range closing of Sw2. The DSRD should turn off abruptly when of charge voltages. As the charge voltage was increased, total charge is removed. The data in Figure 5 show that the measured peak current increased. Figure 6 shows that the peak current in the DSRD under those particular for a particular set of data, the measured peak current conditions would be 150A. With a 50Ω transmission line ranged from 130A to 175A. This data was used to and load, this should correspond with an output voltage of generate a plot of the expected output voltage with the 3.75kV. DSRD. This is shown in blue in Figure 7. Data were then taken with the DSRD reinserted into the 200 current through 1 ohm20 circuit. Measurements were made over a similar charge depletion parameter range so that the output current could be 150 charge 15 estimated without direct measurement. These data are 100 10 included in Figure 7. A comparison between the load (A) load measured output voltage and the expected output voltage Ω 50 5 based on output current shows that the measured output 0 0 voltage from the DSRD is lower than expected. -50 -5 -100 -10 arbitrary units STATUS The solid state DSRD based kicker modulator -150 -15 current throught throught current 1 presented in this paper demonstrated voltage pulses of -200 -20 several kV with rise times of less than 1.5 ns. The circuit -200 -100 0 100 demonstrated that very low if any residual charge time (ns) remained in the kicker after the voltage pulse occurred. Figure 5: Measured current through 1Ω resistance Ongoing efforts will turn toward increasing the output estimating DSRD current.
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