Abstract: A manifold assembly includes a manifold core defining an inlet tube, an outlet tube, a first projection configured to be fluidly coupled with a first bladder, and a second projection configured to be fluidly coupled with a second bladder. A connector is operably coupled to the manifold core and defines a first pathway region, a second pathway region, and release notches. A motor rotates the connector to a first position to fluidly couple the outlet tube with the first projection via the first pathway region and the inlet tube with the second projection via the second pathway region, to a second position to fluidly couple the first and projections with the release notches, and to a third position to fluidly couple the outlet tube with the second projection via the first pathway region and the inlet tube with the first projection via the second pathway region.

Abstract: A device producing laser pulses of durations smaller than 30 ns, and including along its internal optical axis: a laser resonator of optical length smaller than 2 m including two reflecting ends and incorporating an MPF photonic fiber pumped continuously by at least one pump wave with laser diodes, the laser medium being a medium where the laser wave is guided and has a gain with very weak signal greater than 10 per passage, the resonator also incorporating an optical modulator. The optical modulator may deflect the internal laser axis via an electric control along two stable directions, the first direction corresponding to an axis along which the internal laser beam undergoes sufficient losses to prevent the laser effect, the second direction corresponding to an axis along which the laser beam is reflected towards itself at least partially by an optical return element.

Abstract: A device producing laser pulses of durations smaller than 30 ns, and including along its internal optical axis: a laser resonator of optical length smaller than 2 m including two reflecting ends and incorporating an MPF photonic fibre pumped continuously by at least one pump wave with laser diodes, the laser medium being a medium where the laser wave is guided and has a gain with very weak signal greater than 10 per passage, the resonator also incorporating an optical modulator. The optical modulator may deflect the internal laser axis via an electric control along two stable directions, the first direction corresponding to an axis along which the internal laser beam undergoes sufficient losses to prevent the laser effect, the second direction corresponding to an axis along which the laser beam is reflected towards itself at least partially by an optical return element.