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Gas-filled laser-triggered spark gap

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We report 200 ps jitter operation of high-voltage air/nitrogen pressurized spark gap triggered by 850 mJ/5 ns Nd:YAG laser. It is studied the delay and the jitter of this spark gap as a function of voltage, energy of laser pulse, gas pressure and angle of incidence of the laser beam. These experiments will resulted in recommendation for construction of low-jitter spark gap in our new pulse-capillary-discharge driver.

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  1. Department of Pulse Plasma System, Institute of Plasma Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Za Slovankou 3, P. O. Box 17, 182 21, Prague 8, Czech Republic

    O. Frolov, K. Kolacek, V. Bohacek, J. Straus, J. Schmidt & V. Prukner

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Frolov, O., Kolacek, K., Bohacek, V. et al. Gas-filled laser-triggered spark gap. Czech. J. Phys. 54 (Suppl 3), C309 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03166418

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