EAGLE, a 2 TW Pulsed Power Research Facility

Abstract : EAGLE is an experimental pulse generator designed and built at Physics International Company (PI) for research in high-power switching, pulse compression, power flow, magnetic insulation, and dielectric breakdown. EAGLE is a wedge-shaped 1/20th slice (module) of ROULETTE, PI's conceptual design for a 40 to 50 TW, disk-shaped, modular accelerator designed to drive imploded plasma or particle beam loads. EAGLE's nominal design goals were a 100 ns, 2 TW, 2 MV, l MA pulse into a resistive load, or a 150 to 200 ns pulse at lower power. EAGLE has a 0.9 MJ Marx generator and four water-dielectric triplate transmission lines with adjustable impedances.