CW HF R-branch laser

Patent · Tue Jul 01 04:00:00 EDT 1986

OSTI ID:5512579

Injeyan, H; Wang, J H.S.

A chemical laser for continuous wave (CW) HF R-branch line operation is described the laser outputting a CW laser beam having a wavelength of about 2 to 2.5 micrometers for use in an atmosphere progation window. The laser consists of: means for providing fuels and oxidizers, a first fuel being deuterium, a second fuel being hydrogen and an oxidizer being nitrogen trifluoride; means for controlling the flow of the fuels and the oxidizer from the means for providing; a mixing chamber, the mixing chamber including a linear array nozzle system, a plurality of first reaction chambers and a second reaction chamber, the fuel deuterium and the oxidizer nitrogen trifluoride are input by the controlling means into each of the first reaction chambers wherein a first set of reaction products are formed, the first set of reaction products being output by primary nozzles into the secondary reaction chamber; an extraction chamber, the extraction chamber including a laser resonator, the extraction chamber receiving the second set of reaction products and outputting a continuous R-branch line laser beam, the resonator having a pair of discriminating resonator mirrors therein; a reaction product neutralizes the neutralizer receiving the products from the extraction chamber.

• Assignee: Secretary of Air Force, Washington, DC
• Patent Number(s): US 4598409
• OSTI ID: 5512579
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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AMPLIFICATION
CHEMICAL LASERS
CHEMICAL REACTION YIELD
DESIGN
DEUTERIUM
ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION
ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT
EQUIPMENT
FLUORIDES
FLUORINE COMPOUNDS
GAIN
HALIDES
HALOGEN COMPOUNDS
HYDROFLUORIC ACID
HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS
HYDROGEN ISOTOPES
INORGANIC ACIDS
ISOTOPES
LASER MIRRORS
LASER RADIATION
LASERS
LIGHT NUCLEI
MIRRORS
MIXERS
NITROGEN COMPOUNDS
NITROGEN FLUORIDES
NOZZLES
NUCLEI
ODD-ODD NUCLEI
OPTICAL PROPERTIES
OXIDIZERS
PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
RADIATIONS
REFLECTIVITY
RESONATORS
STABLE ISOTOPES
SURFACE PROPERTIES
WAVELENGTHS
YIELDS