Compact repetitive high power nanosecond pulse generator

Increasing importance is being placed on the compact and lightweight repetitive high power nanosecond pulse generator. Based on the ceramic capacitor with neglectable self-inductance, a new high energy density pulse forming module which can form low impedance pulse easily has been developed. The mid-high voltage pulses provide by the modules are used tp produce the demanding high voltage by inductive voltage adding. The experimental results indicate that the rise time of the mid-high voltage pulse generated by single linear transformer driver(LTD) cell is about 50 ns and the pulse width is about 220 ns when the matching load is 2.8 Ω．