High repetition rate laser system

Claim 1

A LASER SYSTEM INCLUDING A CARRIER, A PLURALITY OF ACTIVE LASER ELEMENTS MOUNTED ON SAID CARRIER IN SPACED RELATION TO EACH OTHER, MEANS DEFINING A RESONANT CAVITY FOR SAID LASER ELEMENTS, SAID RESONANT CAVITY INCLUDING REFLECTING MEANS FOR SAID LASER ELEMENTS, AT LEAST PART OF SAID REFLECTING MEANS BEING IN SPACED RELATION WITH SAID LASER ELEMENTS A PUMPING CHAMBER IN SPACED RELATION WITH SAID CARRIER, SAID PUMPING CHAMBER INCLUDING AN OPEN ENDED PUMPING REFLECTOR OF ELLIPTICAL CROSS SECTION AND AT LEAST ONE ENERGY SUPPLY MEANS SUBSTANTIALLY AT THE FOCUS REMOVED FROM SAID OPEN END TO DELIVER PUMPING ENERGY TO SAID LASER ELEMENTS WHEN IN SAID RESONANT CAVITY, SAID OPEN END OF SAID PUMPING REFLECTOR FACING SAID CARRIER AND SAID PUMPING REFLECTOR BEING POSITIONED SO THAT ANY OF SAID LASER ELEMENTS WHEN IN ALIGNMENT WITH THE MAJOR AXIS OF THE ELLIPSE IS AT THE FOCUS OF THE ELLIPSE NEAREST SAID OPEN END, MEANS FOR MOVING SAID CARRIER TO PASS SAID LASER ELEMENTS BY SAID OPEN END OF SAID PUMPING REFLECTOR, SAID REFLECTING MEANS BEING ALIGNED WITH RESPECT TO A LASER ELEMENT IN SAID PUMPING CHAMBER TO FORM A RESONANT CAVITY, A PLURALITY OF CAM MEANS CORRESPONDING TO EACH OF SAID LASER ELEMENTS, AND OPERATING MEANS PERIODICALLY ACTUATED BY SAID CAM MEANS INDIVIDUALLY WHEN THE CORRESPONDING LASER ELEMENT IS AT THE FOCUS TO OPERATE SAID ENERGY SUPPLYING MEANS AND DELIVER PUMPING ENERGY TO SAID CORRESPONDING LASER.