High-speed optical diagnostic of an exploding wire fuse
Giesselmann, M.
Heeren, T.
Neuber, A.
Walter, J.
Kristiansen, M.
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Texas Tech. Univ., Lubbock, TX, USA;
This paper appears in: Plasma Science, IEEE Transactions on Publication Date: Feb. 2002
Volume: 30
,
Issue: 1
, Part 1
On page(s):
100
- 101
ISSN: 0093-3813
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPS.2002.1003943
Current Version Published: 2002-08-07
Abstract
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 107 pictures/s) to assess the performance of the exploding wire fuse
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