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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:
Mar. 19, 1991
Filed:
Nov. 21, 1989
Applicant:
Inventor:
C Ward Trussell, Woodbridge, VA (US);
Assignee:
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army, Washington, DC (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01S / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
372 50 ; 372 43 ; 372 99 ;
Abstract
The invention provides an array wherein thin laser diodes are mounted with heir broad surfaces in intimate contact with a planar heat input surface of a heat sink; the laser radiation emerges from two opposite ends of the diodes parallel to the heat input surface, to provide more efficient lasing and faster uniform dissipation of heat; and elongated inverted V-shaped cross-section mirrors redirect the radiation into a single combined beam substantially normal to the heat input surface.