Self-Starting Flashlamp Pre-Discharge Circuit With a Clamp Circuit

Abstract

The pre-discharge of a flashlamp has been applied to solid state lasers and dye lasers in order to improve the laser output and their stability. Self-starting circuits by using of a low regulation Cockcroft circuit or an AC circuit with fold-back characteristics have been developed, but these circuits are much complicated. In this paper, we report a new and simple self-starting simmer circuit with DC biased clamp circuit.