Improved Gas Laser and Pumping Method Therefor Using a Field Emitter Array.

Abstract

This patent application discloses an apparatus and method pumping a gas laser, wherein a field emitter is used to emit electrons into the gas to effect laser pumping. The low energy electrons emitted by field emitters, and the fine controllability of electron energy permitted by field emitters, enables one to effect population inversion of the laser gas, without ionizing the gas, or causing electrical breakdown.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 12, 1990
Accession Number
ADD014762

Entities

People

  • Henry F. Gray

Organizations

  • United States Department of the Navy

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Electron Energy
  • Electrons
  • Energy
  • Gas Lasers
  • Gases
  • Inversion
  • Laser Gases
  • Laser Pumping
  • Lasers
  • Patent Applications
  • Patents
  • Pumping

Fields of Study

  • Engineering
  • Physics

Readers

  • Electrical Engineering
  • Pulsed Power and Plasma Physics.

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Directed Energy - Lasers
  • Microelectronics
  • Microelectronics - Microelectromechanical Systems