In this section you will learn how different these two types of waveforms look. Slide the slider handle all the way to the left so the value shows "10". This is the typical CW waveform. It's on 50% of the time and off 50% of the time. To get more depth you have to raise the power level of the laser, but this adds more heat with every watt you go up. 

However, what if you could narrow the pulses so they were not on for 50% of the time, but instead maybe 1% of the time? Well that would decrease the heat considerably. You also would not get much done because the overall output power would be so low. 

Now slowly move the slider to the right and notice that as you decrease the on time from 50% down to 1%, the pulse power can go up considerably. What you're doing is taking the energy that would have gone into contributing to heat and shifting that energy into a higher pulse power. 

This is absolutely genius and deals with the biggest problem with the laser's on the market today.