Design and implementation of the high performance thyratron driver

To meet high performance injection requirements, the extraction and injection kicker of the booster synchrotron of SRRC must be working in accordance with the injection frequency. If the operating timing of the extraction and injection kicker deviates too much from the booster master timing clock, the injection efficiency will deteriorate. To prevent this situation occuring, the thyration driver jitter of the extraction/injection kicker related to that of the master timing clock must be small than +/- 1ns. A new thyration driver was designed using a high performance power MOSFET. The new thyration driver is capable of producing a very small phase jitter and a fast rise time. The results and the measured performance will be presented in this paper.