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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 04, 1983
Filed:
Dec. 31, 1981
Warren D Grobman, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A physical barrier is provided for debris discharged from any pulsed electromagnetic radiation source. A shutter is positioned in the path of the electromagnetic radiation at a distance sufficiently far from the source of the electromagnetic radiation such that an emitted pulse of electromagnetic radiation and the debris simultaneously discharged with the pulse become spatially separated from each other and arrive at the shutter at different times due to the inherent difference in propagation speed of the debris and pulse. Movement of the shutter is synchronized with generation of an electromagnetic pulse such that the electromagnetic pulse encounters an open shutter while the slower travelling debris simultaneously launched with the pulse encounters a closed shutter.