Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a cocrystal of at least two compounds by means of instantaneous evaporation or flash evaporation, for example for the production of cocrystals in the fields of energetic materials, pharmaceutical compounds, phytopharmaceutical compounds, ferroelectric materials, non-linear response materials or bioelectronic materials.

Abstract: An increased range guided projectile includes overcaliber lateral moment reducing wings (10) that can be deployed. The lateral moment reducing wings (10) are designed and arranged behind the center of gravity (S) in the tail direction on the guided projectile (1) so that the pitching moment derivative coefficient (Cm?) of the guided projectile (1) is in the range of ±0.5, if the guided projectile (1) has a speed that is in the speed range of Mach 0.4 to 0.8; the lateral moment reducing wings (10) are in their deployed position; and, the canard guide device (20) does not exert any guiding moments.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of manufacturing nanoparticles, and specifically to a method for manufacturing diamond nanoparticles, or nanodiamonds, by detonation at least one explosive charge, wherein said at least one explosive charge is nanostructured.

Abstract: A Laser device with phase front regulation, including a resonator with a beam path, a laser medium located within the resonator, and a phase front regulating unit located within the resonator; a coupling element; an uncoupling element; and phase front controller and a phase front sensor. A measuring laser beam can impact first the coupling element, then the laser medium, then the phase front regulating unit, then the uncoupling element, and then the phase front sensor. The disturbance of the phase front of the laser medium is transferable to the measuring laser beam. The disturbance of the measuring laser beam and the working laser beam can be corrected by the phase front regulating unit. Sensor data can be received from the phase front sensor and can be processed by the phase front controller. Regulating unit signals for the phase front regulating unit can be generated by the phase front controller.

Abstract: The invention relates to the field of explosives, and more particularly relates to particles of an explosive, wherein they are in crystalline form, have a rounded shape and a majority of them contain no internal defect. Particles of an explosive in crystalline form include a volume fraction of closed pores of less than or equal to 0.05%. A method for preparing explosive particles includes preparing crystalline particles, a majority of which are without an internal defect; and rounding the crystalline particles.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a high-voltage pulse generator including a “frozen-wave” generation system for generating high-voltage pulses and a trigger system for triggering the pulses, the generation system including a first and a second photoconductor element, wherein the triggering system includes means for generating a laser light beam and means for splitting the laser beam into two laser beam fractions, each laser beam fraction being directed onto a photoconductor element of the generation system, the splitting means being capable of controlling the distribution of the respective powers of the two laser beam fractions as a function of the orientation of the polarization of the laser beam. The present disclosure also relates to a facility comprising multiple high-voltage pulse generators and electrooptic pump-probe equipment operating such a high-voltage pulse generator.

Abstract: The invention concerns the field of devices for improving the piloting of projectiles More specifically, the object of the invention is a piloting device for a missile or a projectile, for example, of small caliber, especially on the order of 40 mm, which has a lateral main surface with a nose at the level of one of its extremities, whereby said device includes at least one cavity consisting of a combustion chamber and filled, at least partially, by an explosive powder, and means of initiation of this explosive powder, and thereby the explosive powder includes nanothermites or gas-generating nanothermites.

Abstract: This device comprises an electromagnetic coil (3) in which there is able to slide a piston (6) which has at least a portion made of a material having paramagnetic susceptibility and which is placed in contact with the mechanical member when the drive device (1) is in the rest state. Electrical energy supply means are provided in order to store electrical energy and to abruptly release this energy into the coil and thus apply the high-energy magnetic movement pulse to the mechanical member. According to the invention, the piston (1) comprises a stack (9) of blocks (11, 12) which are made alternately from the material having paramagnetic susceptibility and an insulating material; and the electrical energy supply means are provided in order to allow the energy to be applied to the coil in the form of a series of electrical pulses which appear as the piston (6) moves.

Abstract: The invention concerns a process for the representation of a scanning function by means of a neuronal network and a device for the implementation of the process, whereby measurement values associated with a turbulent wave front, which contain phase information, are compared with reference values, with the result that the intermediate values thus obtained can be compared with comparison functions, in order, in the best case, to describe the measured pattern with a selection of comparison functions, whereby a neuronal network is trained in the comparison functions, so that the processing of the measured pattern can take place in near-real time.

Abstract: A method for processing images consisting of pixels generated by an image sensor with a view to supplying input data to a simulated or wired neural process. The method includes reading pixels pixel-by-pixel in real time and constructing prototype vectors during the pixel-by-pixel reading process on the basis of the values read, the prototype vectors constituting the input data of the neural process.

Abstract: An initiator firing device has a firing member adapted to generate heat for allowing the initiation of an energetic material arranged in the initiator. The device also has an electrical switch mounted in series with the firing member, the switch changing from an open condition to a closed condition by application at its terminals of a voltage higher than a predetermined cut-in voltage.

Abstract: An energetic composition with controlled detonation having at least a first organic material and a second material, where the second material is a porous material (micro-, meso-, or macroporous), having a pore ratio of at least 10% and preferably greater than 50%, and the first material is, at least partially, infiltrated into the pores of the second material. A mixture containing such a composition, and a method for manufacturing such a composition and such a mixture. Additionally, a method for fragmenting or expanding a microporous immaterial at nanoscale.

Abstract: A laser device includes an outcoupling mirror, a laser medium, a phase-conjugate mirror based on stimulated Brillouin scattering, and an end mirror all arranged along an optical axis of the laser device. A controllable modulator is positioned between the phase-conjugate mirror and the end mirror. The outcoupling mirror and the end mirror form a start cavity. The outcoupling mirror and the phase-conjugate mirror form a main cavity.

Abstract: A Laser device with phase front regulation, including a resonator with a beam path, a laser medium located within the resonator, and a phase front regulating unit located within the resonator; a coupling element; an uncoupling element; and phase front controller and a phase front sensor. A measuring laser beam can impact first the coupling element, then the laser medium, then the phase front regulating unit, then the uncoupling element, and then the phase front sensor. The disturbance of the phase front of the laser medium is transferable to the measuring laser beam. The disturbance of the measuring laser beam and the working laser beam can be corrected by the phase front regulating unit. Sensor data can be received from the phase front sensor and can be processed by the phase front controller. Regulating unit signals for the phase front regulating unit can be generated by the phase front controller.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a high-voltage pulse generator including a “frozen-wave” generation system for generating high-voltage pulses and a trigger system for triggering the pulses, the generation system including a first and a second photoconductor element, wherein the triggering system includes means for generating a laser light beam and means for splitting the laser beam into two laser beam fractions, each laser beam fraction being directed onto a photoconductor element of the generation system, the splitting means being capable of controlling the distribution of the respective powers of the two laser beam fractions as a function of the orientation of the polarization of the laser beam. The present disclosure also relates to a facility comprising multiple high-voltage pulse generators and electrooptic pump-probe equipment operating such a high-voltage pulse generator.

Abstract: This device comprises an electromagnetic coil (3) in which there is able to slide a piston (6) which has at least a portion made of a material having paramagnetic susceptibility and which is placed in contact with the mechanical member when the drive device (1) is in the rest state. Electrical energy supply means are provided in order to store electrical energy and to abruptly release this energy into the coil and thus apply the high-energy magnetic movement pulse to the mechanical member. According to the invention, the piston (1) comprises a stack (9) of blocks (11, 12) which are made alternately from the material having paramagnetic susceptibility and an insulating material; and the electrical energy supply means are provided in order to allow the energy to be applied to the coil in the form of a series of electrical pulses which appear as the piston (6) moves.

Abstract: The present invention especially concerns the field of lasers. Specifically, the object of the invention is a process for the emission of pulsed laser radiation generated by at least one laser crystal which is located in a cavity containing a first and a second mirror and pumped by des pumping means, wherein said process includes a first stage which consists of generating a first pumping laser radiation with an intensity of Jc which is capable of bringing the crystal at least to the laser emission threshold and a second stage which consists of generating a second pumping laser radiation with an intensity of Jp in the form of a step, whereby said second radiation is superimposed, at least in part, on said first radiation or immediately succeeds it, and whereby the intensity Jp, in the latter case, is greater than the intensity Jc of said first radiation, as well as a laser source capable of activating said process.

Abstract: The present invention relates in particular to the field of lasers and in particular to a laser source having a neodymium-doped crystal (2; 23) or fiber and pumpable by pumping means (3; 25) and a non-linear Raman effect converter stimulated in methane (4; 32), characterized in that the crystal (2; 23) or fiber pumped by said pumping means (3; 25) is able to emit a laser radiation at a wavelength between 1.31 and 1.36 ?m and in that the Raman converter (4; 32) is able to convert the radiation generated by the crystal (2; 23) or by the fiber into at least one second radiation (7; 36) with a wavelength between 2 and 2.3 ?m.

Abstract: A method is provided for determining the attitude, position, and velocity of a mobile device from knowledge of the direction of the earth's magnetic field in an absolute reference frame. Signals are supplied to a processing means for the signals by gyroscopic measuring means in three axes, accelerometric measuring means in three axes, and magnetic measuring means in three axes, where the measuring means are located on-board the device and according to three three-dimensional reference frames connected to the device reference frame.

Abstract: The invention concerns the field of devices for improving the piloting of projectiles More specifically, the object of the invention is a piloting device for a missile or a projectile, for example, of small caliber, especially on the order of 40 mm, which has a lateral main surface with a nose at the level of one of its extremities, whereby said device includes at least one cavity consisting of a combustion chamber and filled, at least partially, by an explosive powder, and means of initiation of this explosive powder, and thereby the explosive powder includes nanothermites or gas-generating nanothermites.