Phase locked staggered dielectric ridge array waveguide gas laser

Patent · Tue Feb 21 04:00:00 EST 1989

OSTI ID:6218099

Hart, R A; Newman, L A; Kennedy, J T

A phase-locked ridge waveguide gas laser is described comprising: a body circumferentially bounding an internal space extending along a central plane and having length and width dimensions parallel to the central plane and a height dimension normal to the central plane; a gaseous lasing medium contained in the internal space; excitation means disposed on the body for exciting the gaseous medium at radio frequency with attendant light emission from the gaseous medium; light-reflecting means so positioned relative to the body as to provide lasing of the light emission; and partitioning means for partitioning the internal space into at least two arrays of laser resonator cavities, each of the cavities having such width as to sustain a guided mode of the lasing light emission, extending along the length dimension and being spaced from an adjacent cavity of the same cavity array in the direction of the width dimension.

• Assignee: United Technologies Corp., Hartford, CT
• Patent Number(s): US 4807232
• OSTI ID: 6218099
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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420300* -- Engineering-- Lasers-- (-1989)
CAVITY RESONATORS
DESIGN
DIELECTRIC MATERIALS
ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION
ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT
ENERGY-LEVEL TRANSITIONS
EQUIPMENT
EXCITATION
GAS LASERS
LASER CAVITIES
LASER MATERIALS
LASERS
MATERIALS
MODE LOCKING
OPERATION
PHASE STABILITY
RADIATIONS
REFLECTION
RESONATORS
STABILITY
VISIBLE RADIATION
WAVEGUIDES