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Portable laser device

US4276520A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateMar 12, 1979
Grant dateJun 30, 1981
Priority date
Expiry dateMar 12, 1999

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH01S3/0915
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A device for producing a laser beam or discharge. The device is constructed to be portable having a pistol grip. The laser beam is generated in the body or barrel of the device. A neodymium (Nd:YAG) rod or similar material is within a xenon flash tube to which a voltage is applied. A photon emission source is provided at one end of the (Nd:YAG) rod embodying a diode and a parabolic reflector system associated with a polarized mirror which is partly reflective and which in part transmits energy rays. A polarized optical mirror is provided at the opposite end of the (Nd:YAG) rod. Activation of atoms within the rod is initiated within the contents of an optical or resonant cavity providing a means by which the necessary excitation of atoms within the optical active (Nd:YAG) rod can be achieved in order to initiate an elevation in population and subsequent inversion of levels, near and over the threshold value necessary to generate a laser beam and the subsequent discharge of said beam. Heat dissipating means are provided including nylon phenolic quartz acrylic compound constructed to have a heat transfer gradient. Embedded in the compound is heat transfer means provided by longitudina…

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