A pulsed nitrogen laser may consist of a laser channel sitting astride two parallel-plate capacitors, one of which is the voltage-swinging capacitor and the second is the laser discharge capacitor. A multichannel nitrogen laser system is proposed for which the laser discharge capacitor of the first laser channel also acts as the voltage-swinging capacitor of the second laser channel, the laser discharge capacitor of the second laser channel also acts as the voltage-swinging capacitor of the third laser channel, and so on. This enables several laser channels to be fired to obtain full power laser pulses in a precision sequence when operated in the ‘‘prompt sequencing’’ mode.
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