Oxygen laser oscillator
OwnerKiwamu Takehisainventor
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Abstract
The disclosed invention relates to a method of realizing an oxygen laser oscillator. The laser oscillator relating to one aspect of the invention is provided with a laser cavity consisting of a high-reflectivity mirror (108) and a partial-reflectivity output mirror (107), a singlet oxygen generator (105), a focusing optics (109), and a shutter (113). Singlet oxygen (O2(1Δg)) is supplied to the chamber (102A) which is pumped beforehand by a vacuum pump. In order to produce a laser oscillation, the shutter (113) is pulled out so that the radiation from O2(1Δg) goes back and forth inside the laser cavity. This causes a stimulated emission from O2(1Δg), and a pulsed laser is extracted from the output mirror (107).
Claims10
An oxygen laser oscillator comprising:
- a laser cavity having at least two reflecting mirrors;
- an area capable of filling the laser cavity with excited oxygen molecules;
- a focusing optics placed in the laser cavity;
- and,
- a shutter controlling whether laser light passes through or is blocked at a focused point formed by the focusing optics in the laser cavity.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.