A pulse compressor compresses a relatively long width optical pulse (of the kind which may be transform limited) to a short width pulse. The compressor includes a color generator which broadens the bandwidth of the long pulse to include any additional colors required for compression to the short pulse. The compressor also includes a grating which has a groove spacing and which is aligned with the output of the color generator at a grazing incidence angle effective for producing a compact grating...

A pulse generator with adjustable pulse frequency, pulse width and pulse delay contains a start-stop oscillator (1) whose oscillator pulses are counted by a counter (2) in adjustable counting cycles. After each counting cycle, the oscillator (1) is shut down for an adjustable time interval. The pulses of the output signal of the pulse generator are produced at the occurrence of a predetermined count value, and the end of these pulses is essentially determined by a second predetermined count valu...

An axially polarized bar magnet is slidably disposed in a non-conductive, non-magnetic tube on which two serially connected oppositely wound induction coils are disposed, the coils being spaced apart by a distance less than the effective length of the magnet.

A pulse damper for use in high-pressure liquid pumping applications such as liquid chromatography comprises a length of flattened polytetrafluoroethylene tubing that can be coupled to the high-pressure liquid flow line. The flattened tubing is enclosed within a liquid-tight housing structure completely filled with a compressible liquid, and the end of the tubing are coupled to the high-pressure flow line by fittings mounted inside the housing structure. When a transient pressure variation occurs...

An electrically operable stimulator for the control of pain or for other purposes through muscle and/or nerve stimulation by application of electrical pulses to the body of an animal, such as a human being. The stimulator generally comprises an internal power supply which may be rechargeable and which operates in conjunction with a pulse generator and an output amplifier. The pulse generator includes a unijunction transistor multivibrator and which is uniquely designed to achieve low current dra...

A pulse generator comprises a comparator to the inputs of which are connected a capacitor chargeable by a power source and a voltage divider respectively, two transistors being connected to the output of the comparator, one to set the voltage ratio of the voltage divider and one to provide a discharge path for the capacitor and two additional transistors being selectively connected to the comparator output, one providing a different voltage ratio of the voltage divider and the other providing an...

A pulse transformer is provided for triggering a magnetron in a microwave oven from a low level d.c. control signal. A step-up transformer has a secondary connected to a magnetron triac and a primary connected to a blocking oscillator circuit. The blocking oscillator circuit utilizes a single transistor, at the base of which there is a biasing compacitor. The system is activated by grounding of a control lead in a microprocessor controller for the microwave oven. Grounding of the control lead ch...

A pulse motor for clockworks and the like in which the rotor comprises two spaced-apart permanent magnetic disks mounted upon a common shaft and rotatable with respect to a stator. The stator comprises a respective pair of magnetic poles in the plane of each disk, the poles of the pair being interconnected by a shank and a coil wound upon the respective shanks, the coils lying on opposite sides of the rotor. The coils can be excited independently to cause the respective pair of poles to magnetic...

A pulse nozzle of a reaction apparatus which obtains a very low temperature by expanding high-pressure and normal-temperature gas in heat insulation manner includes a fixed slit member disposed at an inlet of the nozzle and having a plurality of slit openings, a movable slit member having similar slit openings disposed along the fixed slit member, and two piezoelectric-crystal elements driven by an external pulse signal to slidably move the movable slit member with respect to the fixed slit memb...

Apparatus (20) for increasing the length of a laser pulse to reduce its peak power without substantial loss in the average power of the pulse. The apparatus (20) uses a White cell (10) having a plurality of optical delay paths (18a-18d) of successively increasing number of passes between the field mirror (13) and the objective mirrors (11 and 12). A pulse (26) from a laser (27) travels through a multi-leg reflective path (28) between a beam splitter (21) and a totally reflective mirror (24) to t...