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  • Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
  • OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 1991),
  • paper CTuN1

Photoconductive semiconductor switches for high-power, short-pulse applications

F. J. Zutavern, G. M. Loubriel, M. W. O’Malley, W. D. Helgeson, and D. L. McLaughlin

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Abstract

Large photoconductive semiconductor switches (PCSSs) are being developed for high-power (10 MW-100 GW) applications that demand high reliability (108 shots), fast-rise times (100 ps), low jitter (50 ps), high-repetition rates (10 kHz–100 MHz), and efficient optical activation. We have tested a variety of silicon and GaAs switches in the linear-switching mode (where one absorbed photon creates one electron-hole pair).

© 1991 Optical Society of America

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