Pulsed power technologies facilitate the amplification of electric power delivered by a system through a significant reduction of the duration of the pulse. As energy is the product of multiplying power by time, it is possible through the conservation of energy and by decreasing the duration of the pulse to reach extremely high powers.

As such, ITOPP creates systems capable of delivering currents of several million amps, voltages of several million volts for durations that can be less than one hundred billionths of a second. The power produced can therefore exceed one hundred gigawatts.

In general, Pulsed Powers are able to meet needs for research in physics, particularly nuclear physics, but increasingly also for industrial applications.

Energy banks are in a way the simplest explanation of such systems and generate very high currents (up to several millions of amperes). As of the 1920's, the development of Marx generators has made it possible to obtain several million volts. Since then, new concepts have emerged, such as IVAs (Inductive Voltage Adders) or LTDs (Linear Transformer Drivers).