NF combustor for cylindrical laser

Patent · Fri Nov 08 04:00:00 EST 1985

OSTI ID:6009614

Warren, W R

A combustor using D/sub 2//NF/He (Deuterium, Nitrogen Fluoride, Helium) is used in a laser gain generator in a cylindrical gas laser. The combustor includes a plurality of primary rings having fuel, oxidizer, and diluent orifices therein. Fuel and oxidizer orifices form a triplet injector set that provides a reactant set. Two diluent orifices form a diluent injector set that provides a diluent set. These sets alternate about each primary ring and from one primary ring to the adjacent primary. Because the diluent set does not mix directly with the reactant set initially, a greater percentage of lasing products are formed because of the higher temperature in the reacting zone. Diluent is mixed as required at a later stage in the flow.

• Assignee: Dept. of the Air Force, Washington, DC
• Patent Number(s): None
• OSTI ID: 6009614
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

42 ENGINEERING
420300* -- Engineering-- Lasers-- (-1989)
AMPLIFICATION
CHEMICAL LASERS
COMBUSTORS
DEUTERIUM
ELEMENTS
FLUIDS
FLUORIDES
FLUORINE COMPOUNDS
FUELS
GAIN
GAS LASERS
GASES
HALIDES
HALOGEN COMPOUNDS
HELIUM
HYDROGEN ISOTOPES
ISOTOPES
LASERS
LIGHT NUCLEI
NITROGEN
NONMETALS
NUCLEI
ODD-ODD NUCLEI
OPENINGS
ORIFICES
OXIDIZERS
RARE GASES
RINGS
STABLE ISOTOPES