Excitation circuit for a TE high-energy laser system

US4573160A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Kraftwerk Union Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Hans-Jurgen Cirkel · Erlangen, DE
• Willi Bette · Erlangen, DE
• Reinhard Muller · Baden, CH

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 29, 1984
• Grant date: Feb 25, 1986
• Expiry date: Jun 29, 2004

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H01S3/0973
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An excitation circuit for a TE high-energy laser system, includes at least one high-speed, high-voltage switch, activatable for energizing a pulse-generating network to generate high-voltage pulses at a pair of laser electrodes; the pulse generating network having first and second strip-line capacitors associated with the high-voltage switch and the laser chamber and with appertaining equivalent inductances of the excitation circuit formed from self-inductance of the high-voltage switch, the laser chamber, leads of the system and the stripline capacitors has at least a third stripline capacitor included in the pulse-generating network in addition to the first and second stripline capacitors, a series connection of the high-voltage switch and one of the equivalent inductances being connected in parallel with the first stripline capacitor and with a series-parallel circuit formed of the second stripline capacitor and a parallel connection made up of the third stripline capacitor in parallel with an impedance as well as with a series connection of the laser chamber and another of the equivalent inductances.