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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 08, 1982
Filed:
May. 01, 1980
Applicant:
Inventors:
Richard R Freeman, Middletown, NJ (US);
Jonathan C White, Eatontown, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated, Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01S / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
372 90 ; 372 89 ; 372 55 ;
Abstract
A laser apparatus for inverting a population in an atomic or molecular species is provided. Energy is stored in a first species and a laser induced collisional energy transfer from that first species to a selected dissociative molecular state of a second species causes an inversion of one of the constituents of the second species. This is represented, in one embodiment of the present invention which utilizes a second species comprising a diatomic molecule, by the reaction