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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.
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Keywords:
- GaAs photoconductive semiconductor switch /
- positive and negative symmetric pulse /
- fast rising edge /
- energy storage capacitance
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图 1 GaAs PCSS结构图
Figure 1. Schematic diagram of GaAs PCSS.
图 2 扫描电路结构图
Figure 2. Schematic diagram of scanning circuit.
图 3 扫描电路测试电路图
Figure 3. Testing test circuit of scanning circuit.
图 4 储能电容为33 pF, 偏置电压为± 1.9 kV时的输出波形图
Figure 4. The output waveforms of 33 pF capacitor at the bias voltage is ± 1.9 kV.
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)
Figure 5. The output waveforms at the bias voltage is ± 2.0 kV(insert is rising edge output waveform).
表 1 不同储能电容时输出电脉冲电压传输效率
Table 1. The voltage transmission efficiency of output waveformwith different energy storage capacitor.
电容容值/pF 传输效率/% ± 1.5 kV ± 1.7 kV ± 1.9 kV ± 2.0 kV 10 50.4 47.2 46.9 44.3 33 72.4 71.1 68.5 66.2 82 78.6 76.2 73.9 72.1 100 89.3 92.2 92.9 92.6 
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表 2 不同储能电容时输出电脉冲上升时间
Table 2. The rise time of output waveform with different energy storage capacitor.
电容容值/pF 上升时间/ps ± 1.5 kV ± 1.7 kV ± 1.9 kV ± 2.0 kV 10 158 159 163 149 33 174 169 175 174 82 189 198 180 190 100 380 385 352 377
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[1] Wang L N, Liu J L 2017 IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci. 45 3240
Google Scholar
[2] Ma C, Yang L, Wang S Q, Ji Y, Zhang L, Shi W 2017 IEEE Trans. Power Electr. 32 4644
Google Scholar
[3] Zhang T, Liu K F, Gao S J, Shi Y W 2015 IEEE Trans. Dielect. El. In. 22 1991
Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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[7] Hu L, Su J C, Qiu R C, Fang X 2018 IEEE Trans. Electron Dev. 65 1308
Google Scholar
[8] EI A S, De A A, Arnaud-Cormos D, Couderc V, Leveque P 2011 IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. 23 673
Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
Shi W, Yan Z J 2015 Acta Phys. Sin. 64 228702
Google Scholar
[10] Liu J Y, Wang J, Shan B, Wang C, Chang Z H 2004 Fourth-Generation X-Ray Sources and Ultrafast X-Ray Detectors California, USA, August 4−6, 2004 p123
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
[18] Shi W, Zhang L, Gui H M, Hou L, Xu M, Qu G H 2013 Appl. Phys. Lett. 102 154106
Google Scholar
[19] 桂淮濛, 施卫 2018 67 184207
Google Scholar
Gui H M, Shi W 2018 Acta Phys. Sin. 67 184207
Google Scholar
[20] Xu M, Li R B, Ma C, Shi W 2016 IEEE Electr. Device Lett. 37 1147
Google Scholar
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