The optical cavity of the oscillator section of a giant-pulse ruby laser has been split, by means of a pair of prisms, into two parts which can be Q -switched independently. The laser generates two equal multi-megawatt giant pulses during a single operating cycle, and the relative delay between two is continuously variable over several hundred microseconds.
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Evans et al. (1970) studied this question.