Experimental research on synchronized operation of 4 parallel-connected 1 GW nanosecond pulse generators

Experimental research on synchronized operation of 4 parallel-connected 1 GW nanosecond pulse generators is presented. With trigatron as trigger switch, the synchronized operation is successfully achieved. The jitter time of trigation is 0.2 ns. The mutual spread of four 6 ns wide pulses is lower than 1 ns (probability above 95%) with an average value of 630 ps at a peak power of 1 GW (230 kV on 50 Ω load) of each parallel-connected module.