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US 2007/0201529 A1Published application
Optical oxygen laser and method
OwnerDavid Neumann, Thomas Henshawinventors
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Abstract
An optical oxygen laser has a source of oxygen. A cryoreactor has an input connected to the source of oxygen. An optical pump is coupled to the cryoreactor and excites the oxygen to form an singlet delta oxygen, an excited state of oxygen. An optical resonator cavity receives the excited state oxygen and has a laser output.
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An optical oxygen laser, comprising:
- a source of oxygen;
- a cryoreactor having an input connected to the source of oxygen;
- an optical pump coupled to the cryoreactor and exciting the source of oxygen to form an excited state oxygen;
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- an optical resonator cavity receiving the excited state oxygen and having a laser output.
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The laser of claim, 6, wherein the diode array is coupled through an optical element to an optical fiber.
The laser of claim 10, wherein the waveguide has an optical input.
A method of operating an optical oxygen laser, comprising the steps of:
- a) illuminating a volume of oxygen with an optical pump source in a reactor to form an excited state of oxygen;
- b) placing the excited state of oxygen in an optical resonant cavity having a laser output;
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- c) exhausting a decayed state of oxygen from the optical resonant cavity.
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An optical oxygen laser, comprising:
- an optical pump;
- a reactor coupled to a source oxygen, the reactor combining a volume of oxygen from the source of oxygen with a light from the optical pump to form an excited state of oxygen;
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- an optical resonant cavity receiving the excited state of oxygen and having a laser output.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.