A new solid state extractor pulser for the FNAL magnetron ion source

A new solid state extractor pulser has been installed on the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL) magnetron ion source, replacing a vacuum tube style pulser that was used for over 40 years. The required ion source extraction voltage is 35 kV for injection into the radio frequency quadrupole. At this voltage, the old pulser had a rise time of over 150 mu s due to the current limit of the vacuum tube. The new solid state pulsers are capable of 50 kV, 100 A peak current pulses and have a rise time of 9 mu s when installed in the operational system. This paper will discuss the pulser design and operational experience to date. (C) 2015 AIP Publishing LLC.