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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 24, 2015
Verity Instruments, Inc., Carrollton, TX (US);
Larry Arlos Bullock, Carrollton, TX (US);
John D. Corless, Carrollton, TX (US);
Mark Anthony Meloni, Carrollton, TX (US);
Mike Whelan, Carrollton, TX (US);
Verity Instruments, Inc., Carrollton, TX (US);
Abstract
A flashlamp control system is provided with a capacitor that is statically electrically connected to the high voltage power supply, and a current sensing component is then electrically connected to the static capacitor and digital control electronics to monitor the charge current and/or the discharge current to static capacitor. A dynamically switchable capacitor electrically may also be connected to the high voltage power supply and digital control electronics for isolating the dynamically switchable capacitor from the high voltage power supply based on the monitored charge current and/or discharge current. One or more homogenizing element, comprise of an air gap, diffusing homogenizing element, imaging element, non-imaging element or light pipe homogenizing element, may be disposed in the light path proximate to the flashlamp, such as a multichannel distributor if present, to decrease the coefficient of variation of the optical signal, either temporally and spectrally, or both.