Development of 3.6 MW, 4 ${\mu}s$, 200 pps Pulse Modulator for a High power magnetron

고출력 마그네트론 구동용 3.6 MW, 4 ${\mu}s$, 200 pps 펄스모듈레이터 개발

  • Published : 2004.07.14

Abstract

Microwave heating system of KSTAR consists of ECH and LHCD. ECH and LHCD offer the reliability of operation in the beginning of plasma formation and non-inductive current drive for long time steady state operation with maintaining MHD stability, respectively. LHCD demands 5 GHz of frequency and consists of c-band waveguide, 4-port circuitor, dry dummy load, dual directional coupler, E-bend, arc detector. Our system is a lineup type pulse modulator that has 45 kV of output pulse voltage, 90 A of pulse current, 4 us of pulse width. 1:4 step-up pulse transformer, 7 stages of PFN and thyratron tube (E2V, CX1191D) are used in this modulator. The purpose of this paper is to show the modulator design and experimental result.

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