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US 4,063,191 AGranted
Xenon fluoride laser utilizing nitrogen trifluoride as a fluorine donor
AssigneeNorthrop Corporation
InventorsEarl Rema Ault, Robert Spencer Bradford, Jr., Mani Lal Bhaumik, Danny Doyce Floyd
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Abstract
A laser using an electron beam pump mixture of argon, xenon and nitrogen trifluoride. High power xenon fluoride laser emission is efficiently generated by employing nitrogen trifluoride as a fluorine donor.
Claims5
An XeF gas laser comprising:
- a gas chamber,
- a pair of reflectors, one of which is only partially reflective, positioned opposite each other to define a laser oscillator cavity which passes through the chamber,
- a gas mixture comprising Ar, Xe, and NF.sub.3 being fed to said chamber, and
- laser pump means for exciting said gas mixture, said NF.sub.3 operating as a flourine donor to the Xe to form XeF, the pump means effecting a population inversion in the XeF whereby XeF laser emission passes through said partial reflector.
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