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AMI designs and manufactures Pockels cell drivers for military, medical and other applications. Fast, reliable, high voltage switching in compact form factors is achieved using multiple technologies. AMI’s 820/8200 Series Pockels cell drivers are available as PCB assemblies for installation into small areas as well as in packages designed to withstand the rugged environment of airborne military applications. Drivers can be built to hi-reliability military standards. Custom designs are available for OEM applications.
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For flashlamp pumping, Analog Modules manufactures a variety of high power density capacitor charging power supplies and pulsed driver products. These products are used in a number of military programs for applications including ground and airborne target designation, tank-mounted laser rangefinding, and missile borne illumination for terrain mapping.
Each product is designed to a unique specification to meet the customer’s individual packaging and performance needs. AMI’s vast experience in this field has led to capacitor charging power supply designs that provide extremely high power densities that are very lightweight, yet still meet the demanding shock and vibration requirements of military applications. AMI products also meet the high and low temperature requirements of MIL-STD-810 and other pertinent military standards. Products can be configured for power inputs ranging from low voltage DC (3.3V battery, 18-21VDC with super imposed transients, etc.) to 115VAC, 400Hz, 1 phase, for aircraft deployed applications.
AMI designs and manufactures complete pulsed flashlamp driver systems. These products can include integrated capacitor charging power modules with complete pulse-forming networks, high-speed switching elements, lamp ignition circuits, and control electronics. Resulting systems can provide fixed or variable pulsewidth operation optimized for various pulse energy and pulse repetition rate combinations. Options can include pseudo-simmering, soft-start current limiting, Q-Switch trigger outputs, and microprocessor control. AMI’s extensive experience in pulsed laser systems has again been employed to develop designs that are simple in concept for ruggedness and reliability, yet clever in implementation for high-density packaging and high efficiency.
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AMI offers a complete line of laser diode driver systems and modules for military applications including direct illumination and diode pumping. Patented techniques allow such products to generate narrow, high-power pulses at high repetition rates and/or CW output in the smallest footprints available.
AMI has developed numerous diode driver designs in a variety of packages for easy integration into customer platforms. Diode driver products provide safety features such as feedback current control, over current/voltage protection, enable/inhibit, and dump circuit functions to prevent damage to laser diodes.
For applications requiring turn-key operation, AMI offers the 8800D Series Microprocessor Controlled Laser Diode Controller for pulsed applications and the 880D Series Laser Controller for CW applications. Both feature external control through an RS-232 interface.
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