Plasma flow switch experiment on Procyon

The authors report here results obtained from a series of plasma flow switch experiments performed on the Procyon explosive pulsed power generator. These experiments involved switching into a fixed inductance dummy load and also into a dynamic implosion load. The results indicate that the switch did fairly well at switching current into the load, but the results for the implosion are more ambiguous. The authors compare these results to calculations and discuss the implications for future plasma flow switch work.