Journal of Power Electronics

The Korean Institute of Power Electronics (전력전자학회)
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Development of Airborne High Density High Voltage Power Supply for Traveling Wave Tubes

  • Park Young-Ju (Electronic Warfare Systems Department, Agency for Defense Development (ADD))
  • Published : 2005.10.01
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Abstract

This paper describes the development and testing results of a high density High Voltage Power Supply (HVPS) that drives microwave Traveling Wave Tubes (TWTs) of phased array transmitters for airborne EW systems. The HVPS is designed to consist of a number of modules connected in series. Among them, especially, the high-density pulse transformer module including the resonant circuit is newly designed to make the HVPS much more reliable. In addition, this paper describes the development of high voltage solid-state modulation using fast switching devices (FETs) and also represents the test results of a modulator module.

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