Abstract
An introduction to exploding bridge-wire (EBW) detonators is given followed by an extensive critical review of open source literature pertaining to these devices. The aim is to better establish the mechanism of operation. Some authors state that the key mechanism is shock-to-detonation while others maintain it is more thermal in nature, or a complex combination of both. In addition to EBW detonators, arc detonators and direct optical initiation detonators are also reviewed, and it is demonstrated that in this manner the usually coupled effects from both shock and deflagration can be somewhat decoupled. As a result, it is hypothesized that the mechanism of operation in all three detonators is in fact the same: the formation of a hot plasma with a power of ≈1 MW and emission in the ultraviolet drives a thermal explosion process.
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