Lab usage for one pulse or one firing of a pulsed laser. Big amplifier facilities count shots per day, and single-shot diagnostics capture one pulse at a time. Shot-to-shot stability, the variation in energy or pointing between pulses, is a key spec for amplified lasers, and the word also shows up in shot count lifetimes for flashlamps and Pockels cells.
Shot-to-shot energy is wandering 5 percent, check the flashlamp count before we blame the seed.
Also heard as
- pulse
Related terms
Rep rate
Clipped form of repetition rate: how many pulses per second a pulsed laser emits.
Q-switching
Producing short, intense laser pulses by holding cavity losses high while energy builds up, then suddenly dropping them.
Regen
Clipped form of regenerative amplifier, the cavity that traps a seed pulse for many passes of gain before releasing it.
Burn paper
Paper that marks or darkens where a laser pulse hits it, giving a quick record of beam position and shape.
Same word, different worlds
One full stroke of a manual grease gun, the everyday unit for how much grease goes in.
Welding, Brazing & NDEShop word for a radiograph of a weld, or the act of X-raying it, as in the weld got shot.
Nuclear Safety & Radiation ProtectionA single industrial radiography exposure, used to x-ray a weld with a gamma source or X-ray tube.
NonwovensSmall beads or lumps of polymer that failed to form fibers and sit embedded in a meltblown web.