A Gas-Discharge Emitter with Restriction of the Distribution of the Discharge for the Registration of Fast Processes and the Initiation of Photosensitive Energy-Saturated Materials

Abstract

This paper describes the design of a gas-discharge emitter, which is implemented by limiting the spread of the discharge in a narrow gap between two transparent equidistant surfaces, with air as the working gas with a peak brightness of 6.2 Msb, a luminous body of 18 cm2 (at a discharge energy of 75 J), and a halfwidth duration of ~2 μs. This scheme can be used to solve a wide class of problems, for example, those related to photogrammetric measurements in aeroballistic tests, as well as when creating pulsed loads when detonation is initiated in an extended layer of a photosensitive energy-saturated material.