316 results about "Long pulse" patented technology

Various embodiments may be used for laser-based modification of target material of a workpiece while advantageously achieving improvements in processing throughput and/or quality. Embodiments of a method of processing may include focusing and directing laser pulses to a region of the workpiece at a pulse width sufficiently short so that material is efficiently removed by nonlinear optical absorption from the region and a quantity of heat affected zone and thermal stress on the material within the region, proximate to the region, or both is reduced relative to a quantity obtainable using a laser with longer pulses. In at least one embodiment, an ultrashort pulse laser system may include at least one of a fiber amplifier or fiber laser. Various embodiments are suitable for at least one of dicing, cutting, scribing, and forming features on or within a composite material.

A long pulse power system for gas discharge lasers. The system includes a sustainer capacitor for accepting a charge from a high voltage pulse power source. A peaking capacitor with a capacitance value of less than half the sustainer capacitance provides the high voltage for the laser discharge.

The invention relates to the field of shaped pulse measurement, in particular to a spectrum shearing interferometer suitable for measuring shaped pulses. A plane grating, a first concave face reflecting mirror, a double-slit baffle, a first reflecting mirror and a second reflecting mirror are used for forming a special 4f zero dispersion compressor, the distance between the plane grating, the first reflecting mirror and the second reflecting mirror and the first concave face reflecting mirror is equal to the focal length of the first concave face reflecting mirror in the 4f zero dispersion compressor, the mode that the 4f zero dispersion compressor is added with the double-slit baffle is used for acquiring two quasi monochromatic long pulses, the two quasi monochromatic long pulses and a pulse to be measured are made to be in sum frequency. According to the mode, a shearing amount omega and the band width delta omega of an auxiliary pulse segment participating in sum frequency can be prevented from varying along with the change of the characteristics of the pulses to be measured, the shearing amount omega can be changed conveniently to measure the same pulse, the corresponding phase difference of each frequency of the pulse can be solved independently, and therefore the shaped pulses with various characteristics can be measured accurately.

An audio device (200) includes a first and second ICs (210) and (250) and a substrate (205). The first IC includes a sigma-delta, A/D converter (218) operable to convert an analog signal (234) into a pulse density modulated signal (236). A pulse density width modulator encoder (222) is operable to encode the PDM signal into a PDWM signal (244). The PDWM has short and long pulse widths defining first and second bit levels. The leading edges of each pulse bounds each pulse period. The second IC (250) includes a means (254) to receive the PDWM signal, an edge detector (304) operable to detect the leading pulse edges of the PDWM signal, a time-averaging circuit (308) operable to calculate each pulse period from the leading pulse edges and to generate a sample pulse (120) at near the midpoint of each pulse period, and a latch (312) operable to sample and hold the PDWM signal at the sample pulse to decode a PDM signal (278). The substrate is operable to support the first and second ICs and to conduct the PDWM signal between the first and second ICs.

A method of eliminating interference components in a microphone signal by generating a compensation signal and subtracting the compensation signal from the microphone signal. The compensation occurs completely in the frequency domain and the output signal is processed in the frequency domain as well. Measures for reducing the expenditure during the signal processing are specified. For example, advantageous modifications provide that a filter setting, obtained during a preceding speech pause, be used for eliminating interference in a voice signal and/or that the simulation filter be divided into several partial filters for long pulse responses. In particular, the invention is suitable for eliminating interference signal components, e.g., caused by a radio or the like, from a voice input signal in a motor vehicle, the source signal of which is available as reference signal.

The present invention provides a gastric electrical stimulation apparatus having (1) a pulse generator located outside of the body, (2) an external coil connecting to the pulse generator, (3) an internal coil which is implanted in the body and receives electricity from the external coil by transcutaneous energy transmission, (4) a waveform rectifier circuit connecting to the internal coil, and (5) electrodes which are positioned in contact with the gastric wall and are connecting to the waveform rectifier circuit. This gastric electrical stimulation apparatus imposes a less burden on users and is capable of providing long pulse stimulation.

This invention refers to a method and device for measuring super short laser pulse, which adopts different optical structure with traditional Spectral Phase Interferometry for Direct Electric-field Reconstruction (SPIDER), sum-frequency of the copy pulse of a pulse to be measured with two quasi-monochrome long pulses with different frequency to generate two frequency spectrum sheared sum-frequency, leading defined small time delay between said two pulses through piezoelectric driven single reflection mirror or step reflection mirror, combined with measured single sum-frequency spectrum to calculate point-to-point spectrum phase difference of pulse to be measured, then reconstructing pulse spectrum phase without using Fourier transformation filter process.

Aspects of a method and system for detection of long pulse bin 5 RADARs in the presence of Greenfield packets are presented. In one aspect of the system, a processor in a wireless communication device may receive a plurality of pulses via a received signal. The processor may select at least a portion of the received plurality of pulses. The processor may compute a time duration value and a pulse count value based on the selected at least a portion of the received plurality of pulses. The processor may determine whether the received signal comprises a RADAR transmission signal based on the computed time duration value and the computed pulse count value when the time duration value is greater than or equal to a threshold time duration value and the pulse count value is greater than or equal to a minimum pulse count threshold value.

System for converting relatively long pulses from rep-rate variable ultrafast optical sources to shorter, high-energy pulses suitable for sources in high-energy ultrafast lasers. Fibers with positive group velocity dispersion (GVD) and self phase modulation are advantageously employed with the optical sources. These systems take advantage of the need for higher pulse energies at lower repetition rates so that such sources can be cost effective.

A laser skin treatment process and system. The system includes features for producing a first laser beam of long pulse duration and a second laser beam of short pulse duration and a skin cooler for cooling the surface of a region of skin. The system is designed to utilize the first laser beam for heating a volume of skin tissue below the cooled surface region to a temperature to produce skin tissue modification but below skin tissue damage threshold. This volume of skin tissue is called a “thermal cavity”. The second laser beam is divided into a plurality of separate laser beams that are directed through separate optical fibers and via separate paths through skin tissue to a single tiny volume of skin tissue within the thermal cavity to produce in that tiny volume mechanical damage. This tiny volume is called an energy droplet. Thus tiny regions of tissue are damaged while minimizing or preventing any significant damage to adjacent tissue.

A thermostat, of the type that employs latching relays to connect thermostat power to the various wires of the thermostat run, has a re-pulse feature that supplies latching pulses at a given interval, e.g., three hours, to ensure that the relays are in their proper state agreeing with the thermostat mode and the room temperature relative to the setpoint(s). In the case that the room air temperature is changing in a manner contrary to the current heating or cooling mode, which may indicate the latching relay has been knocked or bumped and needs to have its proper state re-established, the thermostat microprocessor issues pulses to the latching relay(s) more frequently, e.g., each 30 minutes, and the re-pulses may have a longer pulse width, e.g., increased from 20 ms to 25 ms.

Embodiments of the present invention pertain to substrate processing equipment and methods incorporating light emitting diodes (LEDs) for thermally processing substrates. Such light sources offer a variety of advantages including higher efficiency and more rapid response times. Pulse widths are selectable down to under a millisecond but can be for long pulses up to and exceeding a second. LEDs are preferable to tungsten-halogen lamps even in circumstances that allow longer processing times, since LEDs produce light with greater than 50% efficiency and tungsten-halogen lamps operate with less than 5% efficiency.

Disclosed herein are methods and devices for stimulating an immune response to a disease in a subject, which involves passing sub-microsecond long pulses of electric fields having an amplitude between 5 kV/cm and 68 kV/cm through an abnormal growth of a subject sufficient to suppress myeloid-derived suppressor cell (MDSC) or regulatory T cell (Treg) production, increase adenosine triphosphate (ATP) or high mobility group box 1 (HMGB1) production, or stimulate dendritic cell activation in the subject.

A method for laser surface cleaning of a target surface that has limited or no access to the environment directly above the surface to be cleaned. The method includes the ability to clean the surface with a reduced risk of substrate damage. The method includes direct laser excitation of a contaminated substrate surface and thermal transfer from the substrate to the contaminating particulate or contamination layer. The method also includes producing a thermally based removal and reducing a risk of substrate damage by keeping the temperature required to produce surface cleaning below the thermal damage level of the substrate material. In addition, the method includes reducing the risk of substrate damage by utilizing relatively long pulse-widths, providing for improved removal of small contaminants/particles, and directing the beam through a material disposed relative to the surface that is part of the substrates environmental enclosure.

The invention relates to a microwave component in the technical field of high power microwave and provides a coaxial-extraction long-pulse relativistic backward-wave oscillator. The coaxial-extraction long-pulse relativistic backward-wave oscillator comprises a cathode base, a cathode, an anode outer cylinder, a cut-off neck, a slow wave structure, a tapered waveguide, an output waveguide, a solenoidal field, a coaxial-extraction structure and a front-arranged reflection cavity. The coaxial-extraction structure is a cylinder. The front-arranged reflection cavity is disposed between the cut-off neck and the slow wave structure. According to the coaxial-extraction long-pulse relativistic backward-wave oscillator, a cylinder is adopted as the coaxial-extraction structure, and therefore the defect that the coaxial-extraction structure with a groove generates plasma is overcome, and meanwhile in the electromagnetic wave mode, function transformation can be carried out and installation can be achieved conveniently. The front-arranged reflection cavity is utilized to replace the cut-off neck so that the resonance characteristic of the front-arranged reflection cavity can be utilized to achieve the effect of the cut-off neck, electron beam scraping or electron beam bombardment of the front-arranged reflection cavity can be avoided, and premodulation of electron beams emitted from the cathode also can be carried out. Therefore, the coaxial-extraction long-pulse relativistic backward-wave oscillator is beneficial for subsequent beam wave interaction and improves power conversion efficiency of the component.

The present invention relates to a laser guided and powered directed energy weapon that combines two different lasers to accurately and efficiently deliver a high energy electromagnetic pulse (EMP) to a target at long range. The method uses a high energy laser pulse with relatively long pulse duration focused in air to create a plasma ball which emits an intense EMP. Typically the long pulse duration of high energy lasers would severely limit focal accuracy and effective range because of air pressure variations and pollutants in the atmosphere. However the present invention uses a second ultrafast laser to create a long thin optical plasma filament between the variable location of the plasma ball and the target to act as a stable electrical connection or conducting wire. Consequently EMP can be efficiently channeled to the target via the optical filament, thereby dramatically increasing potential accuracy, range and energy delivery efficiency.