Recent Developments in Pulsed High-Power Systems

Pulsed power systems are inherent in any high power accelerator system. Applications include, among others, modulators for powering high power klystrons, pulsed power systems to drive linear induction accelerating cells, kicker magnet drivers for storage rings, and a wide variety of beam deflection and pulsed focusing systems. As with many enabling technologies, component limitations and materials properties dominate the engineering tradeoffs that must be made during the system design. An overview of the state-of-the-art in major componentes of pulsed power systems will be presented. An examination of how those components are being integrated into linac systems will also be performed and an overview of these systems shall be given. The relatively recent shift toward solidstate power electronics solutions to pulsed power engineering problems will be emphasized. Finally, some future trends in the field will be examined.

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