High power ultra-wideband bipolar pulse formers

The paper presents Chopping-Peaking(C-P) switch type and Blumlein line type high power bipolar pulse formers, and studies their operating principles. In ideal condition, the output bipolar high voltage pulses with the peak-peak voltage between the peaks of unlike polarity is twice the voltage of the injecting pulse. Two corresponding high power bipolar pulse formers are designed and simulated calculations are carried out through adopting Pspice software. High voltage experiments about two types of high power bipolar pulse formers are operated on the same high power ultra-wideband supply and the results of the experiments are that the C-P switch type bipolar pulse former can export the bipolar pulse with peak voltages of -812.0 kV, 603.2 kV and 720 ps interval of two peaks, at the input pul