Abstract: In a method and system to provide high intensity photic stimulation to disable target subjects, a high intensity light source is activated by trigger signals to produce light flashes in commanded patterns of duration and frequency. A user views a field illuminated through a shutter viewer such as shutter goggles. The goggles are gated to a light blocking state in response to trigger pulses. The light blocking state has a wider time width than the light flashes from the light source produced in response to the trigger pulses to avoid the need for close synchronization. The target subjects are exposed to the high intensity light flashes while the light flashes are blocked from the view of users. Due to a low duty cycle, the users' view through the shutter goggles is unaffected by the intermittent opacity of the shutter goggles.

Abstract: Exploding conducting film laser optical pumping apparatus. The 342-nm molecular iodine and the 1.315-.mu.m atomic iodine lasers have been optically pumped by intense light from exploding-metal-film discharges. Brightness temperatures for the exploding-film discharges were approximately 25,000 K. Although lower output energies were achieved for such discharges when compared to exploding-wire techniques, the larger surface area and smaller inductance inherent in the exploding-film should lead to improved efficiency for optically-pumped gas lasers.