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Proving DRACO will deliver
The United States is now closer than it has been in over five decades to launching the first nuclear thermal rocket into space, thanks to DRACO—the Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Orbit.
Akira Endoh, Masayoshi Watanabe, Shuntaro Watanabe
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 11 | Number 3 | May 1987 | Pages 492-496
Technical Paper | KrF Laser | doi.org/10.13182/FST87-A25031
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Two modules of a low impedance electron-beam (e-beam) machine were developed to pump a 200-J, 70-ns KrF laser from both sides. The laser was designed as the power amplifier of a picosecond, terawatt excimer laser system, which will be applied to a basic physical research on extreme ultraviolet lasers. Each driving circuit of the e-beam diode was a 2.8.-Ω double parallel plate Blumlein with a 500-kV rail gap as the main switch. The energy deposited in the 42-ℓ laser gain region was measured by several diagnostics to determine the energy transfer efficiency and the spatial uniformity of energy deposition with the guide magnetic field of 1 kG. The triggered operation of 500-kV rail gaps, which is essential for amplifier system synchronization, was realized by the ultraviolet laser irradiation along the rail-gap axis with reduced switching time and jitter of 20 and 1.9 ns, respectively.