High Voltage Pulse Generators

High Voltage Pulse Generators (Pulsers) play an important supporting, and oftentimes enabling role in products and experiments. Many applications make direct use of pulsers for generating electric fields, be it applied to electrodes for manipulating charged particles, Pockels cell crystals to manipulate the polarization of light, or strip-line magnets to accelerate ("kick") ion-bunches at high energy light sources.

Each Sydor Technologies pulser is made to order and optimized to your requirements. See below for the most common configurations, though offerings are not limited to these. Let us help you find the Pulse Generator configuration that best meets your needs.

High Voltage Pulser 7 (PBG7)

• Benefits: PBG family of pulsers offer very high peak power output coupled with a fast rise time

• Amplitude: > 45 kV

• Rise/Fall Time: ≤ 150 ps

• Pulse Width: 3 ns

• Rep Rate: 500 kHz

Programmable Optical Pulse Shaper (POPS)

• Benefits: Built in EO Modulator. 112 samples of ~100 ps duration or 800 samples of ~125 ps duration

• Amplitude: 5 - 6 V

• Rise/Fall Time:  200 ps

• Pulse Width: ~10 ns or 100 ns

• Rep Rate: 1 kHz or 50 kHz

Arbitrary Waveform Generator (AWG)

• Benefits: Used with fiber optic modulator to produce shaped laser pulse. 112 samples of ~100ps duration or 800 samples of ~125ps duration.

• Amplitude > 6 V (8 V typical)

• Rise/Fall Time: 200 ps

• Pulse Width: ~ 10 ns or < 100 ns

• Rep Rate: 1 kHz or 100 kHz

Programmable Laser Pulse Shaper (PLPS-F)

• Benefits: ~300 MHz sample rate compensates for gain depletion in long pulse laser amplification systems

• Amplitude: ~750 V

• Rise/Fall Time: 10-30 ns in 50 pF load

• Pulse Width: 1 µs

• Rep Rate: 50 kHz

Custom Pulse Generator Development

Sydor Technologies knows how every application is unique and interfaces early with your team to understand performance requirements. Since pulsers are typically integrated into unique configurations, our team will work with you to better understand the deployment environment, power load requirements, and the overall performance needed to ensure the best solution to meet research and operational goals. 

Given the extensive range of parameter specifications, we’ve developed a standard procedure to determine the optimal pulser architecture tailored to your requirements. This involves collecting relevant details up front, allowing us to gauge the similarity to our standard offerings and scoping any amount of development that may be required.