Digital counting and display system for a laser rangefinder

    公开(公告)号:US11519723B1

    公开(公告)日:2022-12-06

    申请号:US17714382

    申请日:2022-04-06

    Inventor: Khaled Gasmi

    Abstract: A digital counting and display system and methods for use with a laser rangefinder that counts backscattered laser beams and displays a distance between a laser and a target. The laser rangefinder includes a laser configured to emit a pulsed laser beam, an afocal Gallilean telescope configured to receive backscattered laser pulses and generate a series of focused backscattered laser pulses, a silicon avalanche photodetector connected to the afocal Gallilean telescope, configured to generate a series of currents signal proportional to the series of focused backscattered laser pulses, a low noise, multistage amplifier connected to the silicon avalanche photodetector, configured to generate a series of linearly changing amplified voltage signals from the series of current signals, an analog-to-digital converter configured to convert the series of linearly changing amplified voltage signals to a series of digital voltage signals, and a digital counting and display circuit connected to the analog-digital converter.

    Energy meter circuit for short and low-intensity laser pulses

    公开(公告)号:US11435232B1

    公开(公告)日:2022-09-06

    申请号:US17744042

    申请日:2022-05-13

    Inventor: Khaled Gasmi

    Abstract: A laser energy meter circuit, method, and system for measuring excitation and ionization of a reactant. The laser energy meter circuit includes a pyroelectric detector head configured to receive laser pulses and output current signals; an amplifier having a first amplifier input and an amplifier output configured to generate amplified voltage signals; a sample-and-hold circuit; a trigger circuit connected to a second sample-and-hold input, wherein the trigger circuit is configured to receive a TTL signal and generate a delayed output pulse, Q1 and a trigger signal, Q2; a sample-and-hold circuit output configured to output the maximum pulse voltage when the trigger signal is received at the second sample-and-hold input; a switched capacitor bank connected to the sample-and-hold circuit output; and a peak detector circuit configured to measure a magnitude of the maximum pulse voltage and generate an averaged DC maximum pulse voltage signal.

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