AND TRANSFER SYSTEM FOR IMPODING PLASMA EXPERIMENTS

IMPLODING PLASMA EXPEIMENTS SUCH AS SHIVA ARE TYPICALLY ENERGIZED WITH LARGE AND EXPENSIVE CAPACITOR BANKS. INDUCTIVE STORAGE WHILE SUBSTANTIALLY MORE COMPACT SUFFERS FROM SWITCH EFFICIENCY AND CURRENT MULTIPLICATION CIRCUITY PROBLEMS (SEE REF 1). THE MEAT GRINDER IS A GENERIC CIRCUIT INVENTED BY THE PRINCIPLE INVESTIGATOR THAT TRANSFERS CURRENT FROM ONE INDUCTOR TO ANOTHER REVERISBLY WITHOUT THE CONVENTIONAL SWITCH OR EFFICIENCY PROBLEM AND WITHOUT THE CONVENTIONAL PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH CURRENT MULITIPLICATION CIRCUITRY. A PARTICULAR EMBODIMENT FOR IMPLODING PLASMA UTILIZES ORTHOGONAL FIELD ROTATING TO ALLOW THE STORAGE AND LOAD INDUCTOR TO BE SPATIALLY CONCURRENT. THE RESULTING CIRCUITRY LENDS ITSELF ESPECIALLY WELL TO OVERALL COMPACTNESS OF THE TOTAL POWER TRAIN. BEYOND MILITARY APPLICATIONS, THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN INDUCTIVE PULSED POWER SOURCE IN THE SEC RANGE HAS BROAD IMPLICATIONS IN ALL AREAS OF PLASMA RESEARCH.