Interhalogen based combustion-driven laser which provides continuous wave output lasing from dual species
A method of producing continuous radiation in a laser system having two discrete species lasing simultaneously is described. The method consists of providing a flow of gas which includes atoms of fluorine and a gas selected from the fluorine interhalogen group consisting of chlorine fluoride, bromine fluoride and iodine fluoride; admixing molecular hydrogen to the flow to allow the atomic fluorine to react with the hydrogen and from vibrationally excited hydrogen fluoride and atomic hydrogen; reacting the fluorine interhalogen with the atomic hydrogen to form a vibrationally excited hydrogen halide and atomic fluorine; and passing the excited hydrogen fluoride and hydrogen halide through an optical cavity to produce an output beam of electromagnetic radiation having wavelengths characteristic of these excited species.
- Assignee:
- United Technologies Corp.
- Patent Number(s):
- US 3959741
- OSTI ID:
- 7276304
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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