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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 1986
Filed:
Jun. 05, 1984
Vincent McKoy, Flintridge, CA (US);
Amitave Gupta, Pasadena, CA (US);
Barnes Engineering Company, Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
A transparent protective laser shield and a method for forming the same are provided in which the shield is adapted to be interposed between a laser beam and a viewer for adjustably absorbing more than one narrow band radiation from laser beams while transmitting radiation in a broader band surrounding the narrow band laser beams. A transparent host material comprising a crystalline or amorphous glassy or plastic material having substantial transmission properties of optical radiation has introduced therein a plurality of chromophores selected from a porphyrin complex which has been modified by a metal providing metallo-porphyrin complexes in the transparent material which absorbs optical radiation at predetermined narrow band wave lengths located within the selected broad band wave length passed by the transparent host material. The predetermined narrow band wave lengths absorbed in the transparent material is adjusted to match the desired laser wave lengths by adding radical groups to the metallo-porphyrin complexes to match the absorption bands in the transparent material forming the transparent protective laser shield to desired laser wave lengths. The viewer is enabled to see through the transparent laser shield but is protected from the laser beams which are absorbed by the shield to protect the viewer.