Light pulse from a ruby or neodymium-glass laser enters miniature optics of repetitive-detonation apparatus. Traveling along a bundle of optical fibers, light strikes laser-sensitive microdetonator and charge explodes. Apparatus then advances next charge in train into position. Possible applications of sequential-impulse generator are in creating shock waves for aerodynamics research and in generating electrical power by magnetohydrodynamics.
Sequential-Impulse Generator Uses Fiber-Optics
NASA Tech Briefs ; 6 , 1
1982-09-01
Miscellaneous
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English
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