Jitter characteristic of series magnetic pulse compressor employed in ns trigger generator

The jitter characteristic of series magnetic pulse compressor (MPC) employed in ns trigger generator was explored. The time delay of the series MPC is the sum value of the compression time in each stage. The primary voltage disturbance is the original parameter to affect the timing stability of the system. Decreasing the relative jitter of the primary voltage and the first compression time are the practical and exclusive approaches to decrease to time jitter of the series MPC. The jitter experiment was carried out on the three-stage series MPC charged with a fast step-up LC transformer. The performance data show that the delay time decreases with the increase of primary voltage. Meanwhile, the measured ratio between the time jitter and the relative jitter of the primary voltage accords with the theoretical result.