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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 2004
Filed:
Jan. 05, 1996
Jerome P. Hall, Livermore, CA (US);
Terry W. Alger, Tracy, CA (US);
Andrew T. Anderson, Livermore, CA (US);
Phillip A. Arnold, Livermore, CA (US);
The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
A cooling structure ( ) for use inside a ceramic cylindrical tube ( ) of a metal vapor laser ( ) to cool the plasma in the tube ( ), the cooling structure ( ) comprising a plurality of circular metal members ( ) and mounting members ( ) that position the metal members ( ) coaxially in the tube ( ) to form an annular lasing volume, with the metal members ( ) being axially spaced from each other along the length of the tube ( ) to prevent the metal members from shorting out the current flow through the plasma in the tube ( ) and to provide spaces through which the heat from localized hot spots in the plasma may radiate to the other side of the tube ( ).