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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 20, 1982
Filed:
Jun. 09, 1980
Applicant:
Inventors:
Clive Willis, Ottawa, CA;
Terrence J McKee, Nepean, CA;
Assignee:
Canadian Patents & Dev. Ltd., Ottawa, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01S / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
372 60 ; 372 57 ;
Abstract
A rare-gas hydrogen-halide laser is improved by including or adding a predetermined quantity of a hydrogen donor additive to its gas mixture. The closed-off operation lifetime of lasers such as XeCl, KrCl, or XeBr are tripled by adding up to 0.05% hydrogen to the laser gas mixture.