TY - JOUR
T1 - High-Speed Optical Diagnostic of an Exploding Wire Fuse
AU - Giesselmann, Michael
AU - Heeren, T
AU - Neuber, Andreas
AU - Walter, J
AU - Kristiansen, Magne
N1 - Funding Information:
Manuscript received July 2, 2001; revised November 15, 2001. This work was supported by the Explosive-Driven Power Generation MURI program under the Director of Defense Research and Engineering and by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research.
PY - 2002/2
Y1 - 2002/2
N2 - Explosive flux compression generators generate hundreds of kiloamperes and voltages of a few kilovolts. A power conditioning stage is required since typically voltages in the hundreds of kilovolts range are needed. Inductive energy storage systems with an opening switch provide the necessary voltage gain. In our application, the opening switch has been implemented as an exploding wire fuse. The voltage gain, and hence the performance of the system, is greatly dependent on the opening switch. We utilized high-speed optical imaging (up to 10 7 pictures/s) to assess the performance of the exploding wire fuse.
AB - Explosive flux compression generators generate hundreds of kiloamperes and voltages of a few kilovolts. A power conditioning stage is required since typically voltages in the hundreds of kilovolts range are needed. Inductive energy storage systems with an opening switch provide the necessary voltage gain. In our application, the opening switch has been implemented as an exploding wire fuse. The voltage gain, and hence the performance of the system, is greatly dependent on the opening switch. We utilized high-speed optical imaging (up to 10 7 pictures/s) to assess the performance of the exploding wire fuse.
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0036478277
SP - 100
EP - 101
JO - IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science
JF - IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science
ER -