Abstract: An electronic circuit comprising a direct current interface at which a direct current is providable, an alternating current interface at which an alternating current is providable, a set of switchable half-bridges coupled to the direct current interface, each half-bridge comprising two blocks each having a switch and a diode, a control entity configured for switching the switches of the half-bridges with a predefined relative phase shift between different half-bridges, and a filter entity arranged between the alternating current interface and a plurality of parallel paths relating to the plurality of half-bridges wherein the filter entity comprises a coupled inductor inductively coupling the plurality of parallel paths.

Abstract: An electronic circuit comprising a direct current interface at which a direct current is providable, an alternating current interface at which an alternating current is providable, a set of switchable half-bridges coupled to the direct current interface, each half-bridge comprising two blocks each having a switch and a diode, a control entity configured for switching the switches of the half-bridges with a predefined relative phase shift between different half-bridges, and a filter entity arranged between the alternating current interface and a plurality of parallel paths relating to the plurality of half-bridges wherein the filter entity comprises a coupled inductor inductively coupling the plurality of parallel paths.

Abstract: Process and device for cleaning pollutants from a surface using a laser for applying laser pulses to the surface to be cleaned, in which the laser is pulsed in pulse durations not exceeding 30 nanoseconds, the area on the surface is contacted with the pulsating laser, the surface is cleaned in the absence of an observably thermal effect, and the laser is removed from the area on the surface after the area is cleaned, the laser beam is manipulated by means of a hand piece, and an optical system is provided to separate the laser beam into a plurality of individual laser beams with energies approximately equal to each other, and guided by an optical fiber assembly together with a recombining of the individual beams into a single laser beam, and the afocal optical assembly for adjusting the diameter of the recombined laser beams.