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Factors affecting the output pulse flatness of the linear transformer driver cavity systems with 5th harmonics

Alexeenko, V.M.; Mazarakis, Michael G.; Kim, A.A.; Kondratiev, S.S.; Sinebryukhov, V.A.; Volkov, S.N.; Cuneo, M.E.; Kiefer, Mark L.; Leckby, J.J.; Oliver, Bryan V.; Maloney, P.D.

We describe the study we have undertaken to evaluate the effect of component tolerances in obtaining a voltage output flat top for a linear transformer driver (LTD) cavity containing 3rd and 5th harmonic bricks [A. A. Kim et al., in Proc. IEEE Pulsed Power and Plasma Science PPPS2013 (San Francisco, California, USA, 2013), pp. 1354-1356.] and for 30 cavity voltage adder. Our goal was to define the necessary component value precision in order to obtain a voltage output flat top with no more than ±0.5% amplitude variation.