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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 26, 1989
Filed:
Apr. 22, 1988
Applicant:
Inventors:
Mark H Sher, Los Altos, CA (US);
John J Macklin, Stanford, CA (US);
Stephen E Harris, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Stanford, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01S / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
372 76 ; 372 84 ; 372-5 ; 372 73 ;
Abstract
A traveling-wave, laser-produced-plasma, energy source used to obtain single-pass gain saturation of a photoionization pumped laser. A cylindrical lens is used to focus a pump laser beam to a long line on a target. Grooves are cut in the target to present a surface near normal to the incident beam and to reduce the area, and hence increase the intensity and efficiency, of plasma formation.