Laser fusion pulse shape controller

Patent · Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1977

OSTI ID:862967

Siebert, Larry D ^[1]

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1. Ann Arbor, MI

An apparatus for controlling the pulse shape, i.e., the pulse duration and intensity pattern, of a pulsed laser system, and which is particularly well adapted for controlling the pellet ignition pulse in a laser-driven fusion reaction system. The apparatus comprises a laser generator for providing an optical control pulse of the shape desired, a pulsed laser triggered by the control pulse, and a plurality of optical Kerr-effect gates serially disposed at the output of the pulsed laser and selectively triggered by the control pulse to pass only a portion of the pulsed laser output generally corresponding in shape to the control pulse.

• DOE Contract Number: E(11-1)-2709
• Assignee: KMS Fusion, Inc. (Ann Arbor, MI)
• Patent Number(s): US 4061985
• OSTI ID: 862967
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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