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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 2024

Filed:

Oct. 09, 2020
Applicants:

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);

Centre National DE LA Recherche Scientifique, Paris, FR;

Inventors:

Keith Nelson, Newton, MA (US);

Steven Kooi, Lexington, MA (US);

Thomas Pezeril, Le Mans, FR;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G21B 1/23 (2006.01); G21B 1/03 (2006.01); G21B 1/19 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G21B 1/23 (2013.01); G21B 1/03 (2013.01); G21B 1/19 (2013.01);
Abstract

In some embodiments, a method to excite a shock wave in a target assembly includes: splitting a pulsed laser beam into a plurality of pulsed laser beams; spatially shaping the plurality of pulsed laser beams into a plurality of concentric pulsed laser rings of different diameters; and adjusting temporal and/or spatial intervals between the concentric pulsed laser rings to substantially match propagation times of a ring-shaped laser-driven shock wave from one ring to the next in a shock propagation layer of the target assembly.


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