Gas laser excited by a transverse electrical discharge triggered by photoionization
US4592065A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Jun 27, 1983 |
| Grant date | May 27, 1986 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 27, 2003 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH01S3/09716
- WIPO fieldOptics
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
An X-ray generator 7 directly connected to the electrode 8 internally of a hollow cathode 3 emits electrons under a field effect to generate X-rays, the generator 7 supplying 50 to 100 Kv with a rise time of less than 10 nanoseconds. X-rays rapidly created, in turn, rapidly create electrons in the active medium 1 between anode 2 and cathode 3 to trigger a discharge therebetween, across which anode and cathode the voltage of a laser capacitor is pre-applied at a level below the breakdown voltage of the active medium.
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