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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 10, 2004
Filed:
Nov. 14, 2002
John P. Dering, Lakewood, CA (US);
Genyvieve A. Donne, Rolling Hills Estates, CA (US);
James Thomas, Aliso Viejo, CA (US);
Scientific Applications and Research Associates, Inc., Cypress, CA (US);
Abstract
A process of producing a high energy chemical oxygen-iodine laser, including the steps of obtaining a quantity of oxygen in the singlet delta energy state [O (a &Dgr;)], combining the O (a &Dgr;) with a quantity of non-reactive carrier gas, combining the singlet delta oxygen and carrier gas with a non-reactive iodine donor gas and homogenizing the entire mixture, creating and maintaining an electrical discharge plasma downstream from a nozzle, passing the homogenized mixture through the nozzle and the discharge plasma at supersonic speeds to dissociate the iodine into free iodine atoms and directing the flow of gasses and free iodine atoms into the optical cavity laser action region of a laser.