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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:
Apr. 22, 1986
Filed:
Mar. 17, 1980
Applicant:
Inventors:
William F List, Linthicum, MD (US);
Ronald W Minarik, Lutherville, MD (US);
Assignee:
Westinghouse Electric Corp., Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01S / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
372 55 ; 372 58 ; 372 60 ; 372 34 ; 372 86 ; 372701 ;
Abstract
An electric discharge gas laser utilizing a seedant material which is cooled prior to the main laser discharge. The seedant is ionized prior to the cooling process and prior to the main discharge, this pre-ionization maintaining the seedant material in a gaseous state even in view of the lowered temperature for a sufficient time so as to give the required ionization levels.