Heraeus-christ Gmbh

Lambda Physik Ag

Lambda Physik Forschungs- Und Entwicklungsgesellschaft Mb

Jurgen Baumler

Ulrich Rebhan

Gerhard Schroter

Markus Ritcher

Manfred Zeh

A beam shutter apparatus designed to handle high powered UV radiation is disclosed. The shutter includes a high reflectivity mirror mounted on a plate which can be rotated between a first position where the beam is reflected and redirected to a tool such as a beam dump and a second position where the beam is free to pass out of the laser, where the beam is free to pass out of the laser The shutter includes a support base with an angled upper surface upon which the mirror plate rests when in the second position. The support base has a beam path channel designed so that a beam can pass through the support base and out of the shutter when the mirrored plate is in the first position. The mirrored plate is rotated by a linkage, which is driven by an electrically powered actuator on a rotational magnet. The support base is machined out of a monolithic piece of metal allowing very high precision without the need for cumbersome alignment procedures.

Beam shutter for excimer laser

An electrode for pulsed gas lasers consisting substantially of tungsten and copper has a long life. With such an electrode contaminations of the laser gas and of the windows are largely obviated, even in long-time operation. An electrode suitable also for fluoride-containing laser gases consists essentially of an alloy containing copper, aluminium and nickel.

Electrode for pulsed gas lasers

To prevent uneven rotary speeds of the inner rotor of a nested triple-rotor centrifuge in which a separating container is located in an inner rotor and connected by means of soft-elastic integral connecting tubes with the outside of the centrifuge, and without slip joints, and wherein the three nested, coaxially positioned rotors are independently rotatable with respect to each other, a positive synchronizing drive connection (25, 33) is established between the outer rotor (4) and the drive connection (27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32) of the inner rotor (6); the centrifuge is particularly suitable for centrifuging blood during or immediately following blood donation to permit separation of blood plasma and return of erythrocytes to the donor.

Separating centrifuge

To provide for resilient hanging and outwardly swinging support of sample holder cups to be placed on the rotor of a centrifuge, a ring-shaped element is located axially offset from the holding portion for the cups of the rotor, the ring-shaped element having axially extending bores formed therein into which rod or strip spring elements are inserted, extending essentially axially along the rotor axis and then being bent over laterally outwardly and terminating in an L or P-shaped hook end so that the sample holder cups can be hooked therein for outward swinging movement. Preferably, the rotor and the sample holder cups are formed with interengaging abutments to limit outward movement of the cups during operation. The rotor itself is preferably formed with a groove to receive the horizontally extending portion of the spring elements. Additional restraining means can be provided to restrain undue deflection of the spring elements during rotor operation.

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Osterode, Germany

Jurgen Baumler