Patent ID: 6377595
Filing Date: 2002-04-23
Classification: H01S

Abstract:
A peaking capacitor layout in a laser device, which includes discharge electrodes disposed in a laser medium and a single-row peaking capacitor group having a plurality of peaking capacitors which are electrically connected in parallel to the discharge electrodes through a current circuit and also disposed in a row along a longitudinal direction of the discharge electrodes, in which a discharge is caused across the discharge electrodes by transferring electric charges from the respective peaking capacitors forming the single-row peaking capacitor group to the discharge electrodes in a predetermined transition time to excite the laser medium, wherein:the single-row peaking capacitor group is disposed in plural numbers in a direction in which a length of the current circuit varies, and a capacitance of each of the peaking capacitors forming a row with a longer current circuit is adjusted to be smaller than that of the peaking capacitors forming a row with a shorter current circuit so to reduce a transition time difference of the peaking capacitors in the respective rows.