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Title: Method and apparatus for pulse stacking

Patent ·
OSTI ID:5044294

An active pulse stacking system is described that includes an etalon and an electro-optical modulator apparatus combined with a pulse-forming network capable of forming and summing a sequence of time-delayed optical waveforms arising from, for example, a single laser pulse. The Pockels cell pulse stacker may attain an efficiency of about 2.6% while providing a controllable faster-than-exponential time rise in transmitted pulse intensity.

Assignee:
Energy Research and Development Administration
Patent Number(s):
US 4053763
OSTI ID:
5044294
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: Filed date 25 May 1976; Other Information: PAT-APPL-689,751
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English