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Re: modulation, bit rate, lasers and diodes sources

Started by Jerry Avins ●January 25, 2011
On Tuesday, January 25, 2011 9:35:52 AM UTC-5, Clay wrote:

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> Cool that you built one. Did you use it to measure distances?


No. I tried to burn holes. All I succeeded in doing was cracking lenses. By placing the spark gap toward one end of the metalized Teflon, I wasted little energy in the backward direction.

Jerry
Reply by Clay ●January 25, 20112011-01-25
On Jan 25, 11:21&#4294967295;am, Jerry Avins <j...@ieee.org> wrote:

> On Tuesday, January 25, 2011 9:35:52 AM UTC-5, Clay wrote:
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> &#4294967295; ...
>
> > Cool that you built one. Did you use it to measure distances?
>
> No. I tried to burn holes. All I succeeded in doing was cracking lenses. By placing the spark gap toward one end of the metalized Teflon, I wasted little energy in the backward direction.
>
> Jerry


That makes sense since now your electric wave is just ahead of the
optical one. And that happens mostly in one direction.

Clay