Temporal switching jitter in photoconductive switches

John A. Gaudet; Mike C. Skipper; Michael D. Abdalla; Sean M. Ahern; Samuel P. Romero; Alan Mar; Fred J. Zutavern; Guillermo M. Loubriel; Marty W. O'Malley; Wesley D. Helgeson

doi:10.1117/12.391812

14 July 2000 Temporal switching jitter in photoconductive switches

John A. Gaudet, Mike C. Skipper, Michael D. Abdalla, Sean M. Ahern, Samuel P. Romero, Alan Mar, Fred J. Zutavern, Guillermo M. Loubriel, Marty W. O'Malley, Wesley D. Helgeson

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Proceedings Volume 4031, Intense Microwave Pulses VII; (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.391812
Event: AeroSense 2000, 2000, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

Gallium arsenide photoconductive semiconductor switches (PCSS) are being studied as enabling technologies for a variety of applications. High grain PCSS can be triggered with small laser diodes or laser diode arrays. Some of the applications require low temporal jitter of the switches relative to the trigger laser. The purpose of this study was to compare the temporal switch jitter times for different systems: we varied the type of trigger laser and its risetime, the type of pulse charger and transmission line that was discharged through the PCSS, and the geometry of PCSS used. One of the PCSS was an opposed contact PCSS geometry used by the Air Force Research Laboratory. The other was a coplanar geometry switch made by Sandia National Laboratories. It is found that the optical trigger laser characteristics are dominant in determining the PCSS jitter while the nature of the contact geometry (opposed or coplanar) is not as important.

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John A. Gaudet, Mike C. Skipper, Michael D. Abdalla, Sean M. Ahern, Samuel P. Romero, Alan Mar, Fred J. Zutavern, Guillermo M. Loubriel, Marty W. O'Malley, and Wesley D. Helgeson "Temporal switching jitter in photoconductive switches", Proc. SPIE 4031, Intense Microwave Pulses VII, (14 July 2000); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.391812

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