Voltage adding of pulse forming lines using inductive energy storage

Two methods of output voltage adding using pulse forming lines (PFLs) have been studied and compared. Both methods use inductive energy storage (IES) instead of traditional capacitive energy storage (CES), which means that the PFLs are charged by current instead of voltage. One of the methods (Type A) used an additional transmission-line-transformer (TLT) to achieve the output voltage adding from multiple PFLs, while the other method (Type B) combined the functions of PFL and TLT into one set of transmission lines. Both methods have advantages and disadvantages over each other and both methods are believed to have certain significance in pulsed power generation.

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