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US 3,940,298 AGranted
Thermal laser pumped with high nitrogen content propellants
AssigneeThe United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
InventorsWerner F. Beckert, Ottmar H. Dengel
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Abstract
Thermal lasers use aliphatic polynitro compounds and polynitroamines as oxidizers and tetrazoles, ditetrazolyls, tetrazines, triazines and guanidines as fuel.
Claims17
In a method of pumping thermal lasers comprising:
- a. combusting a fuel and an oxidizer and (b) expanding the combustion products through a supersonic nozzle to produce a laser effect, the improvement wherein (1) said fuel comprises at least one selected from the group consisting of a tetrazole derivative, a ditetrazolyl derivative, a tetrazine derivative, a triazine derivative and a guanidine derivative, (2) said oxidizer comprises at least one selected from the group consisting of a high-energy aliphatic polynitro compound and a polynitroamine compound.
A composition comprising a fuel and an oxidizer suitable for use in a thermal laser:
- a. said fuel being at least one selected from the group consisting of a guanidine derivative, a triazine derivative, a tetrazine derivative, a ditetrazolyl derivative, and a tetrazole derivative;
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- b. said oxidizer being at least one selected from the group consisting of a high energy aliphatic polynitro compound and a polynitroamine.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.