Slab-waveguide CO.sub.2 laser
US5412681A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Mar 30, 1994 |
| Grant date | May 2, 1995 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 30, 2014 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH01S3/0315
- WIPO fieldOptics
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
An improved slab-waveguide CO.sub.2 laser which includes two parallel, rectangular, flat, spaced-apart, slab electrodes whose surfaces excite a laser gas and guide laser light in a plane perpendicular to the surfaces of the slab electrodes. The component of the light propagating parallel to the electrode surfaces is not guided and is acted on only by resonator mirrors which form an unstable resonator. The improved slab-waveguide CO.sub.2 laser operates on a single vibrational transition of the CO.sub.2 molecule by employing wavelength selective optics.
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