Uniform field water switching

Self-breaking dielectric switches are used in almost all super power generators. The switches for these low impedance generators are multiple-site, strongly field enhanced, point-plane type switches in order to achieve low jitter operation. We have investigated an alternative switching technology that uses nearly uniform field switches for multipoint, low jitter operation in PBFA-I-class accelerators. The length of the water channel is reduced by approximately 30% with this technique without increasing the jitter of the switches. These shorter channels are possibly less inductive and less resistive than the field enhanced conventional switch.