1.College Information Engineering, Shaanxi Polytechnic Institute, Xianyang 712000, China 2.Department of Applied Physics, Xi’an University of Technology, Xi’an 710048, China
Fund Project:Project supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2017YFA0701005), the State Key Laboratory of Intense Pulsed Radiation Simulation and Effect of China (Grant No, SKLIPR1812), Shaanxi Science and Technology Project, China (Grant No. 2019NY-174), and the Special Scientific Research Plan of Shaanxi Provincial Education Department, China (Grant No. 17JK0056)
Received Date:07 March 2019
Accepted Date:18 June 2019
Available Online:01 October 2019
Published Online:05 October 2019
Abstract:Femtosecond streak camera is currently the only diagnostic device with a femtosecond time resolution. Scanning circuit with bilateral symmetrical output is an important part of femtosecond streak camera. To achieve better performance of the streak camera, high requirements are placed on the output of scanning circuit. Owing to the excellent feature of litter time jitter and fast response speed, a GaAs photoconductive semiconductor switch (PCSS) has become a core device in the scanning circuit. Investigating the positive and negative symmetric pulses with fast rising edgeof GaAs PCSS is of great significance to improving the time resolution of femtosecond streak camera. In this paper, a laser with a pulse width of 60 fs was used to trigger a GaAs PCSS with an electrode gap of 3.5 mm. Under different storage capacitors and bias voltages, the positive and negative symmetric pulses withthe fastest rise time of 149 ps and the highest voltage transmission efficiency of 92.9% were obtained. The test results meet the design requirements of streak camera to realize femtosecond time resolution. Through the comparative analysis of the experimental values, it is concluded that the storage capacitor can affect the efficiency and rise time of the output electrical pulse in the same trigger laser pulse. By calculating the multiplication rate of carriers in combination with the output electrical pulse waveform, it is concluded that the GaAs PCSS operates in linear mode. According to the working characteristics of the linear mode and the energy storage characteristics of the capacitor, the analysis indicates that, when the characteristics of the trigger laser pulse are the same, the transmission efficiency and rise time of the output electric pulse voltage increase with the increase in storage capacitor, which is consistent with the experimental results. This study has a certain guiding significance for the better application of GaAs PCSS in femtosecond streak camera, which also has a certain propelling effect on improving the time resolution of femtosecond streak camera. Keywords:GaAs photoconductive semiconductor switch/ positive and negative symmetric pulse/ fast rising edge/ energy storage capacitance
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3.测量结果当触发激光能量为97.5 μJ, 外加偏置电压为± 1.9 kV时, 测试了在储能电容容值为33 pF时输出波形, 如图4所示. 从图4可以看出, 正负输出电脉冲的对称性好. 经示波器测量可得正向脉冲的输出电压为1.270 kV, 上升时间为164 ps. 负向脉冲的输出电压为1.302 kV, 上升时间为175 ps. 图 4 储能电容为33 pF, 偏置电压为± 1.9 kV时的输出波形图 Figure4. The output waveforms of 33 pF capacitor at the bias voltage is ± 1.9 kV.
为了使扫描电路获得更高的电压传输效率以及更快的上升时间, 当触发光能为97.5 μJ时, 分别在电容容值为10, 33, 82, 和100 pF时进行测试. 当外加偏置电压为± 2.0 kV, 单边电脉冲的输出结果如图5所示. 从图中可以看出, 随着储能电容的增大, 输出电脉冲的幅值及上升时间均增加. 图 5 外加偏置电压为± 2.0 kV时的输出波形图(插图为上升沿波形图) Figure5. The output waveforms at the bias voltage is ± 2.0 kV(insert is rising edge output waveform).