[en] A survey of the physics of neutron guides has been applied to their installation on pulsed neutron sources, particularly the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) at the Rutherford Laboratory. Guides on pulsed sources generally view smaller source areas than those on continuous sources, and furthermore their lengths are fixed primarily by time-of-flight resolution requirements. These differences have been accounted for in the design of guides for two SNS instruments A Monte Carlo computer code has been used in the optimisation and simulation of the guide geometries. (author)