Silicon Switch Development For Optical Pulse Generation In Fusion Lasers At Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

28 November 1983

proceedings article
Published by SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng

Vol. 0439, 112-116
https://doi.org/10.1117/12.966082

Abstract

We have been developing a silicon photoconductive switch for use as a Pockels cell driver in the pulse generation systems of the fusion lasers Nova and Novette. The objective has been to make 10 kV switches repeatably and which are reliable on an operating system. We found that nonlinear phenomena in nearly intrinsic silicon caused excessive conduction at high voltage resulting in breakdown. Our experiments with doped material show that this problem can be eliminated, resulting in useful devices.

Keywords

HIGH VOLTAGE
SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES
OPERATING SYSTEM
SWITCHES
SILICON
OPERATING SYSTEMS
LASERS

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