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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 28, 2010
Filed:
May. 19, 2008
Joseph T. Verdeyen, Savoy, IL (US);
James Gary Eden, Champaign, IL (US);
David L. Carroll, Urbana, IL (US);
Jason D. Readle, Champaign, IL (US);
Clark J. Wagner, Champaign, IL (US);
Joseph T. Verdeyen, Savoy, IL (US);
James Gary Eden, Champaign, IL (US);
David L. Carroll, Urbana, IL (US);
Jason D. Readle, Champaign, IL (US);
Clark J. Wagner, Champaign, IL (US);
CU Aerospace, LLC, Champaign, IL (US);
The Board of the University of Illinois, Urbana, IL (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides in one of the embodiments for either a continuous wave (cw) or pulsed alkali laser having an optical cavity resonant at a wavelength defined by an atomic transition, a van der Waals complex within the optical cavity, the van der Waals complex is formed from an alkali vapor joined with a polarizable gas, and a pump laser for optically pumping the van der Waals complex outside of the Lorentzian spectral wings wherein the van der Waals complex is excited to form an exciplex that dissociates forming an excited alkali vapor, generating laser emission output at the wavelength of the lasing transition.