High efficiency sub-nanosecond electro-optical Q-switched laser operating at kilohertz repetition frequency

Based on a theoretical model of Q-switched laser with the influences of the driving signal sent to the Pockels cell and the doping concentration of the gain medium taken into account,a method of achieving high energy sub-nanosecond Q-switched lasers is proposed and verified in experiment.When a Nd:YVO4 crystal with a doping concentration of 0.7 at.%is used as a gain medium and a driving signal with the optimal high-level voltage is applied to the Pockels cell,a stable single-transverse-mode electro-optical Q-switched laser with a pulse width of 0.77 ns and a pulse energy of 1.04 mJ operating at the pulse repetition frequency of 1 kHz is achieved.The precise tuning of the pulse width is also demonstrated.

Velocity compensation methods for LPRF modulated frequency stepped-frequency(MFSF) radar

In the high speed target environment,there exists serious Doppler effect in the low pulse repetition frequency（LPRF） modulated frequency stepped frequency（MFSF） radar signal.The velocity range of the target is large and the velocity is high ambiguous,so the single method is difficult to satisfy the velocity measurement requirement.For this problem,a novel method is presented,it is a combination of cross-correlation inner frame velocity measurement and range-Doppler coupling velocity measurement.The cross-correlation inner frame method,overcoming the low Doppler tolerance of the cross-correlation between frames,can obtain the coarse velocity of the high speed target,and then the precision velocity can be obtained with the range-Doppler coupling method.The simulation results confirm the method is effective,and also it is well real-time and easy to the project application.

Discharge Characteristics of SF_6 in a Non-Uniform Electric Field Under Repetitive Nanosecond Pulses

The characteristics of high pressure sulphur hexafluoride（SF6） discharges in a highly non-uniform electric field under repetitive nanosecond pulses are investigated in this paper.The influencing factors on discharge process,such as gas pressure,pulse repetition frequency（PRF）,and number of applied pulses,are analyzed.Experimental results show that the corona intensity weakens with the increase of gas pressure and strengthens with the increase of PRF or number of applied pulses.Spark discharge images suggest that a shorter and thicker discharge plasma channel will lead to a larger discharge current.The number of applied pulses to breakdown descends with the increase of PRF and ascends with the rise of gas pressure.The reduced electric field（E/p） decreases with the increase of PRF in all circumstances.The experimental results provide significant supplements to the dielectric characteristics of strongly electronegative gases under repetitive nanosecond pulses.

Experimental study on plasma actuation characteristics of nanosecond pulsed dielectric barrier discharge

Combining high-speed schlieren technology and infrared imaging technology,related research has been carried out on the influence of parameters such as actuation voltage,repetition frequency,and electrode size of an actuator on the discharge characteristics,induced flow field characteristics,and thermal characteristics of nanosecond pulsed dielectric barrier discharge.The results show that increasing the value of the actuation voltage can significantly increase the actuation intensity,and the plasma discharge area is significantly extended.Increasing the repetition frequency can increase the number of discharges per unit time.Both will cause more energy input and induce more changes in the flow field.The effect of temperature rise is more significant.The width of the covered electrode will affect the potential distribution during the discharge process,which in turn will affect the extension process of the plasma discharge filament.Under the same actuation intensity,the wider the covered electrode,the larger range the induced flow field and temperature rise is.Preliminary experimental analyses of high-frequency actuation characteristics,temperature field characteristics,flow field characteristics and actuation parameter settings provide support for the parameter selection and partial mechanism analysis of plasma anti-icing.

The pulsed microwave damage trend of a bipolar transistor as a function of pulse parameters

In the present paper we conduct a theoretical study of the thermal accumulation effect of a typical bipolar transistor caused by high power pulsed microwaves（HPMs）,and investigate the thermal accumulation effect as a function of pulse repetition frequency（PRF） and duty cycle.A study of the damage mechanism of the device is carried out from the variation analysis of the distribution of the electric field and the current density.The result shows that the accumulation temperature increases with PRF increasing and the threshold for the transistor is about 2 kHz.The response of the peak temperature induced by the injected single pulses indicates that the falling time is much longer than the rising time.Adopting the fitting method,the relationship between the peak temperature and the time during the rising edge and that between the peak temperature and the time during the falling edge are obtained.Moreover,the accumulation temperature decreases with duty cycle increasing for a certain mean power.

High-power microwaves response characteristics of silicon and GaAs solar cells

The high-power microwave(HPM)effect heats solar cells,which is an important component of a satellite.This creates a serious reliability problem and affects the normal operation of a satellite.In this paper,the different HPM response characteristics of two kinds of solar cells are comparatively researched by simulation.The results show that there are similarities and differences in hot spot distribution and damage mechanisms between both kinds of solar cell,which are related to the amplitude of HPM.In addition,the duty cycle of repetition frequency contributes more to the temperature accumulation of the solar cells than the carrier frequency.These results will help future research of damage assessment technology,reliability enhancement and the selection of materials for solar cells.

Generation of Atmospheric Pressure Plasma by Repetitive Nanosecond Pulses in Air Using Water Electrodes

Dielectric barrier discharge （DBD） excitated by pulsed power is a promising method for producing nonthermal plasma at atmospheric pressure. Discharge characteristic in a DBD with salt water as electrodes by a home-made unipolar nanosecond-pulse power source is presented in this paper. The generator is capable of providing repetitive pulses with the voltage up to 30 kV and duration of 70 ns at a 300 Ω resistive load. Applied voltage and discharge current are measured under various experimental conditions. The DBD created between two liquid electrodes shows that the discharge is homogeneous and diffuse in the whole discharge regime, Spectra diagnosis is conducted by an optical emission spectroscopy. The air plasma has strong emission from nitrogen species below 400 nm, notably the nitrogen second positive system.

Investigation on latch-up susceptibility induced by high-power microwave in complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor inverter

The latch-up effect induced by high-power microwave（HPM） in complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor（CMOS） inverter is investigated in simulation and theory in this paper. The physical mechanisms of excess carrier injection and HPM-induced latch-up are proposed. Analysis on upset characteristic under pulsed wave reveals increasing susceptibility under shorter-width pulsed wave which satisfies experimental data, and the dependence of upset threshold on pulse repetitive frequency（PRF） is believed to be due to the accumulation of excess carriers. Moreover, the trend that HPMinduced latch-up is more likely to happen in shallow-well device is proposed.Finally, the process of self-recovery which is ever-reported in experiment with its correlation with supply voltage and power level is elaborated, and the conclusions are consistent with reported experimental results.

Midinfrared optical frequency comb based on difference frequency generation using high repetition rate Er-doped fiber laser with single wall carbon nanotube film

We demonstrated stable midinfrared(MIR) optical frequency comb at the 3.0 μm region with difference frequency generation pumped by a high power, Er-doped, ultrashort pulse fiber laser system. A soliton mode-locked161 MHz high repetition rate fiber laser using a single wall carbon nanotube was fabricated. The output pulse was amplified in an Er-doped single mode fiber amplifier, and a 1.1–2.2 μm wideband supercontinuum(SC) with an average power of 205 m W was generated in highly nonlinear fiber. The spectrogram of the generated SC was examined both experimentally and numerically. The generated SC was focused into a nonlinear crystal, and stable generation of MIR comb around the 3 μm wavelength region was realized.

Preliminary Research on Primary Energy Source of High Current Electron Beam Accelerator Based on Spiral Pulse Forming Line

In this paper,the primary energy source of high current electron beam accelerator based on spiral pulse forming line is investigated.It consists of the constant-current power supply,the high voltage pulse capacitor,the field distortion switch,and the protection system.The primary energy source can discharge to the primary winding of the transformer with high voltage pulses whose amplitude of voltage is 40kV,current is 80kA,pulse width is 8μs and repetition frequency is less than 5Hz.The primary energy source is applied to a high current electron beam accelerator, and is featured by its compactness,stability and reliability.

A novel RHT-TBD approach for weak targets in HPRF radar

A novel approach, which can handle ambiguous data from weak targets, is proposed within the randomized Hough transform track-before-detect(RHT-TBD) framework. The main idea is that, without the pre-detection and ambiguity resolution step at each time step, the ambiguous measurements are mapped by the multiple hypothesis ranging(MHR) procedure. In this way, all the information, based on the relativity in time and pulse repetition frequency(PRF) domains, can be gathered among different PRFs and integrated over time via a batch procedure. The final step is to perform the RHT with all the extended measurements, and the ambiguous data is unfolded while the detection decision is confirmed at the end of the processing chain.Unlike classic methods, the new approach resolves the problem of range ambiguity and detects the true track for targets. Finally, its application is illustrated to analyze and compare the performance between the proposed approach and the existing approach. Simulation results exhibit the effectiveness of this approach.

Multiple model particle flter track-before-detect for range ambiguous radar

The middle pulse repetition frequency（MPRF）and high pulse repetition frequency（HPRF）modes are widely adopted in airborne pulse Doppler（PD）radar systems,which results in the problem that the range measurement of targets is ambiguous.The existing data processing based range ambiguity resolving methods work well on the condition that the signal-to-noise ratio（SNR）is high enough.In this paper,a multiple model particle flter（MMPF）based track-beforedetect（TBD）method is proposed to address the problem of target detection and tracking with range ambiguous radar in low-SNR environment.By introducing a discrete variable that denotes whether a target is present or not and the discrete pulse interval number（PIN）as components of the target state vector,and modeling the incremental variable of the PIN as a three-state Markov chain,the proposed algorithm converts the problem of range ambiguity resolving into a hybrid state fltering problem.At last,the hybrid fltering problem is implemented by a MMPF-based TBD method in the Bayesian framework.Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed Bayesian approach can estimate target state as well as the PIN simultaneously,and succeeds in detecting and tracking weak targets with the range ambiguous radar.Simulation results also show that the performance of the proposed method is superior to that of the multiple hypothesis（MH）method in low-SNR environment.

Fast approximate maximum likelihood period estimation from incomplete timing data

To estimate the period of a periodic point process from noisy and incomplete observations, the classical periodogram algorithm is modified. The original periodogram algorithm yields an estimate by performing grid search of the peak of a spectrum, which is equivalent to the periodogram of the periodic point process, thus its performance is found to be sensitive to the chosen grid spacing. This paper derives a novel grid spacing formula, after finding a lower bound of the width of the spectral mainlobe. By employing this formula, the proposed new estimator can determine an appropriate grid spacing adaptively, and is able to yield approximate maximum likelihood estimate （MLE） with a computational complexity of O（n2）. Experimental results prove that the proposed estimator can achieve better trade-off between statistical accuracy and complexity, as compared to existing methods. Simulations also show that the derived grid spacing formula is also applicable to other estimators that operate similarly by grid search.

Development of single-resonant optical parametric oscillator with tunable output from 410 nm to 630 nm

A single-resonant low-threshold type-Iβ-Ba_(2)BO_(4)(BBO) optical parametric oscillator (OPO) with tunable output from 410 nm to 630 nm at 5 k Hz repetition rate is reported.By taking the noncollinear phase matching method,low-threshold OPO operation could be obtained compared with the configuration of collinear phase matching,and the maximum optical–optical conversion efficiency of 11.8%was achieved at 500 nm wavelength when 0.4 m J pump pulse energy was applied.When the noncollinearity angle was preset at 1.6°,4.8°,and 6.3°,a continuously tuning output with a total spectral range of 220 nm was successfully obtained by adjusting the phase matching angle of the BBO crystal.

The influence of pulsed parameters on the damage of a Darlington transistor

Theoretical research on the heat accumulation effect of a Darlington transistor induced by high power microwave is conducted,and temperature variation as functions of pulse repetitive frequency（PRF）and duty cycle（DC）are studied.According to the distribution of the electronic field and the current density in the Darlington transistor,the research of the damage mechanism is carried out.The results show that for repetitive pulses with the same pulse widths and different PRFs,the value of temperature variation increases with PRF increases,and the peak temperature has almost no change when PRF is lower than 200 k Hz;while for the repetitive pulses with the same PRF and different pulse widths,the larger the pulse width is,the greater temperature variation varies.The response of the peak temperature caused by a single pulse demonstrates that there is no temperature variation when the rising time is much shorter than the falling time.In addition,the relationship between the temperature variation and the time during the rising edge time as well as that between the temperature variation and the time during the falling edge time are obtained utilizing the curve fitting method.Finally,for a certain average power,with DC increases the value of temperature variation decreases.

On-Line Adaptive Repetitive Controller for Power Factor Correction Systems

When the fundamental frequency is shifting, it is hard for traditional repetitive controller to work at the resonant frequencies. In this paper, a novel adaptive repetitive controller for power factor correction systems is proposed to suppress the current harmonics. Through the controller, the shifting sampling times of the repetitive controller in a fundamental period can be obtained. Mathematical analysis, simulations and physical experiments have validated the effectiveness of the adaptive repetitive controller.