United States of America As Represented by the Secretary of the Air Force

Harold C Miller

Gordon D Hager

Alan H Paxton

Kenneth M Dinndorf

Jonathan Stohs

Bartley D Stewart

Dan Radzykewycz

An optical element for homogenizing and, possibly, concentrating the output from high-power two-dimensional semiconductor laser arrays, which has the basic shape of a convex-flat cylindrical lens with a facet cut into the convex surface for each individual semiconductor laser bar.

Multifaceted prism to cause the overlap of beams from a stack of diode laser bars

An open loop liquid spray phase-change cooling system for a laser comprised of an expendable supply of a compressed liquid refrigerant, a laser heat sink, an on/off valve, and a means for controlling the on/off valve in response to the measured heat sink temperature.

Liquid spray phase-change cooling of laser devices

An HBr laser is pumped by a slave laser power oscillator which excites the (2,0) absorption band of the HBr laser, to cause it to lase around four microns. A tunable master oscillator, which is frequency locked to an HBr reference cell, seeds the slave oscillator and maintains lock-on to an absorption line in the (2,0) band of HBr.

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Albuquerque, NM, United States of America

Harold C Miller