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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 2002
Filed:
Apr. 10, 2001
David L. Carroll, Urbana, IL (US);
Wayne S. Solomon, Champaign, IL (US);
Joseph T. Verdeyen, Savoy, IL (US);
CU Aerospace, Urbana, IL (US);
Abstract
A method, apparatus and system are provided herein for an electrically assisted chemical oxygen iodine laser. The preferred system, in accordance with the present invention, includes a laser resonator with a laser-active gas mixture of at least excited oxygen and dissociated iodine. A first electrical generator in which a primary flow of at least excited oxygen is electrically generated from a first gas that includes at least ground state oxygen. A second electrical generator in which a secondary flow of at least dissociated iodine atoms is electrically generated from a second gas that includes at least diatomic iodine. The system further includes a means to inject the secondary flow into the primary flow to generate the laser-active gas mixture.