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HEWLETT-PACKARD JOURNAL T E C H N I C A L I N F O R M A T I O N F R O M T H E - t i p - L A B O R A T O R I E S Vol. 15, No. 2 'UBLISHED BY THE HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY, 1501 PAGE MILL ROAD, PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA OCTOBER, 1963 A General-Purpose Pulse Generator Producing High-Power, Fast-Rise Pulses FAST risetime pulses with appreciable power with fast risetimes, a new general purpose pulse at high repetition rates are used to advantage generator has been designed to supply up to 200 in a growing number of applications. The testing watts in its output pulse at repetition rates up to of magnetic cores, ferrite modulators, high speed 1 Me. Maximum pulse amplitude into a 50 ohm relays, and high power semiconductor devices rep load is 100 volts, four times the power previously resent some of the uses for pulses of considerable available in a general purpose pulse generator. current. Pulses Maximum pulse current into a short circuit is 2 SEE ALSO: A new dip-on current probe, with ample volt amperes. Pulse rise and fall times at 100 volts are page 5 age are useful typically less than 15 nsec and are reduced to less Increased power for VLF standard for testing pow than 13 nanoseconds for pulse amplitudes of 50 broadcasts, page 8 er amplifiers, volts (into 50 ohms) or less. wideband modulators, and the ionization times of The new generator, -hp- Model 2 14 A, comple neon bulbs, thyratrons, and other gaseous devices. ments the performance range of other recently- To meet this demand for high power pulses announced -hp- generators. The Model 215A Fig. 2. Either positive or negative rec