Switching Jitter in Spark Gap Triggered by a TEM00-Mode Mode-Locked Ruby Laser
- 1 October 1972
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Review of Scientific Instruments
- Vol. 43 (10) , 1482-1484
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1685470
Abstract
The first study of jitter in a laser triggered spark gap switched by pulse trains from a mode‐locked ruby laser is described. The spark gap was fired by producing gas breakdown in a high pressure argon‐nitrogen mixture between the pole pieces. Jitter was measured as a function of the position of the lens used to focus the laser beam and as a function of the ratio of the applied voltage to the self‐breakdown voltage of the gap. Jitter values of less than 2 nsec were obtained under optimum conditions provided that the gap was fired by the early part of the pulse train.Keywords
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