Final design and initial pulsed power results for the Decade quad plasma radiation source machine configurations

At the 1999 IEEE Pulsed Power Conference, we reported on the preliminary design of a water coupler system that would combine the current from four individual Decade modules to drive a single plasma radiation source. The design has been finalized; the hardware has been fabricated and fielded on the Decade Quad at the Arnold Engineering Development Center. The final design issues associated with fabrication of the hardware and initial results into a short circuit load and imploding aluminum wire arrays are presented. We also present initial test results with the Decade Quad in the large area bremsstrahlung mode.