The Center for Advanced Power Systems (CAPS) at Florida State University (FSU) was recently established to pursue research and education in power engineering. Development and demonstration of superconducting technologies is one of the cornerstones of the CAPS program. Important aspects of the program are the test of superconducting equipment at power levels up to 5 MW, and the creation of a rec...

Medium voltage direct-current based integrated power system is projected as one of the solutions for powering the all-electric ship. It faces significant challenges for accurately energizing advanced loads, especially the pulsed power load, which can be rail gun, high power radar, and other state of art equipment. Energy storage based on supercapacitors is proposed as a technique for buffering ...

Submitted for the GEC08 Meeting of The American Physical Society Sorting Category: 2.6 (E) Arguments for increased efficiency of Xe excimer DBDs by pulsed instead of sinusoidal excitation MARK PARAVIA, KLAUS E. TRAMPERT, MICHAEL MEISSER, WOLFGANG HEERING, Light Technology Institute, University Karlsruhe — Xenon excimer dielectric barrier discharges are used as VUV sources or as plane light sour...

OBJECTIVE To compare structural and functional outcomes and efficiency of diode laser photocoagulation for retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) when delivered in a pulsed mode versus a near-continuous mode. METHODS A retrospective study was conducted of 138 patients who underwent diode laser photocoagulation for threshold ROP using either pulsed or near-continuous delivery. Laser-related complica...

The ability to fabricate monolithic two-dimensional (2D) diode laser arrays is a key step towards making high-power lasers at low cost, because the manufacture of such laser arrays eliminates labour-intensive fabrication and packaging [ 11. The surface-normal topology of the vertical cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) makes it ideally suited to the formation of 2D arrays for high power appli...

The development of rf systems capable of producing high peak power (hundreds of megawatts) at relatively short pulse lengths (0.1-5 microseconds) is currently being driven mainly by the requirements of future high energy linear colliders, although there may be applications to industrial, medical and research linacs as well. The production of high peak power rf typically involves four basic elem...

Demonstrations of CW and pulsed microchip lasing in Cr2þ:ZnS and Cr2þ:ZnSe crystals are reported. Slope efficiencies up to 53% with output power up to 150 mW for CW and energy up to 1 mJ for pulsed pumping were achieved. Two compact diode and Er fibre laser directly pumped external cavity Cr2þ: ZnS lasers are also described.