vicorpower.com EU17V1 ©2017 Vicor Corporation. All rights reserved. Airborne Infrared Countermeasures Pulsed Load Driver for Lasers Pulsed Load Small Size, Low Profile Factorized Power Conduction Cooling The Customer's Challenge This airborne countermeasures system controls multiple lasers that fire energy pulses at incoming weapons in an attempt to confuse their guidance systems. One requirement of the design was that the pulsed energy demands of the system should be averaged out so as not to significantly vary the current demands on the power source, this was to avoid the system interfering with other sensitive electronics onboard the aircraft. The design is an upgrade to an existing system that required increased functionality and more power in the same available space,

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