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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 05, 1988
Filed:
Sep. 26, 1985
Applicant:
Inventor:
Chi-Sheng Liu, Monroeville Boro, PA (US);
Assignee:
Westinghouse Electric Corp., Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F21V / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
2504581 ; 356318 ;
Abstract
A laser communication system in which a filter-detector is provided which has a high acceptance angle and a narrow bandwidth. The filter-detector contains vaporized selected atomic species or a molecular composition dissociable to the selected atomic species. The selected atomic species electronic ground state is not absorptive of the laser output wavelength, but the selected atomic species exhibits a metastable or long-lived energy state which when populated absorbs the laser output wavelength. A subsequent transition produces fluorescence from the atomic species as a function of the laser output.