Patent · US Expired

Air-cooled discharge tube for an ion laser

US4698818A · kind A · utility

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8Claims

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Assignee

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

Hinrich Heynisch · Gräfelfing, DE
Klemens Huebner · Ottobrunn, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Aug 1, 1986
Grant date	Oct 6, 1987
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Aug 1, 2006

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH01S3/032
WIPO fieldOptics
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

In a discharge tube for ion lasers, cooling disks and insulator tubes are provided so that laser power is increased and relatively inexpensive ceramic can be used for the insulator tubes. Cooling packets are disposed between the insulator tubes and are composed of metallic cooling disks alternating with spacer disks.

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