HIGH FREQUENCY, REPETITIVE, COMPACT TOROID-GENERATION FOR RADIATION PRODUCTION

摘要

Systems and methods are discussed to create radiation from one or more compact toroids. Compact toroids can be created from plasma of gases within a confinement chamber using a plurality of coils of various densities of windings. High current pulses can be generated within the coil and switched at high frequencies to repeatedly generate compact toroids within the plasma. The plasma can produce radiation at various wavelengths that is focused toward a target or an intermediate focus.

主权项

1. A radiation source comprising:
a gas source; a confinement tube coupled with the gas source and configured to contain gas introduce into the confinement tube from the gas source; and a resonant inductor having a plurality of windings around the confinement tube that is configured to ionize gas disposed within the confinement tube, generate a compact toroid within the ionized gas, and produce radiation from the compact toroid.