Patent ID: 6501780
Filing Date: 2002-12-31
Classification: H01S

Abstract:
An oxygen-iodine laser system having a laser resonator with a laser-active gas mixture of at least excited oxygen and dissociated iodine flowing therethrough, comprising:a first electrical generator in which a primary flow comprising of at least said excited oxygen is electrically generated from a first gas comprising of at least ground state oxygen, the first electrical generator having at least a pulsed discharge and a continuous wave discharge to maintain a ratio of electric field-to-gas density in order to excite the first gas to form at least the excited oxygen; a second electrical generator in which a secondary flow comprising of at least dissociated iodine atoms is electrically generated from a second gas comprising of at least diatomic iodine; and an injector which injects the secondary flow into the primary flow to generate the laser-active gas mixture.