Eur. Phys. J. D 55, 243-247 (2009)
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2009-00229-y

Method to eliminate the damage aroused by intrinsic prepulse of Blumlein transmission line in capillary discharge soft X-ray laser system

¹ National Key Laboratory of Tunable Laser Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, 150080, Harbin, P.R. China
² China Institute of Atomic Energy, 102413, Beijing, P.R. China

Corresponding author: ^a xy5090@yahoo.com.cn

Received: 9 May 2009
Revised: 13 July 2009
Published online: 7 August 2009

Abstract

To raise the utilization ratio of the energy power, and meanwhile, guarantee the waveform of the main discharge current to obtain X-ray laser, our capillary discharged Ne-like Ar soft X-ray laser system adopts Blumleim transmission line (BTL) and a 300 kV-Marx generator; and by using our self-developed intrinsic-prepulse elimination device and extrinsic-prepulse generator, we successfully removed the intrinsic prepulse of BTL, and thus eliminated its deteriorative effect towards Z-pinch plasma. By this means, we obtained stable X-ray laser output; and the voltage transmission rate of our system nearly reaches 122%, which provides a guarantee for the miniaturization of the power source and the whole system.