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Tunable alkali metallic vapor laser
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Inventors: Itzkan, Irving; Kung, Robert T. V.;
Assignee: Avco Everett Research Laboratory, Inc. (Everett, MA)
Primary Examiner: Sikes; William L.
Assistant Examiner: Rasco; Marcus S.
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Frederick, Melvin E.
A tunable alkali metallic vapor laser system is disclosed. Stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) in a low pressure atomic alkali metallic vapor of potassium or cesium is utilized wherein the atomic vapor is provided and then primed to populate an intermediate level such as the 4P.sub.1/2 level for potassium and the 6P.sub.1/2 level for cesium from which the desired upper laser level is accessible. After the population is created at the intermediate level, it is pumped to a virtual level near the desired upper laser level by a tunable dye laser and, via the SRS process, generates the tunable output laser beam. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION We claim: 1.
A tunable pulse laser system comprising: (a) a resonant optical cavity comprising heat pipe means disposed between a pair of mirrors, said heat pipe means comprising a chamber having an evaporation portion intermediate its ends for providing therein at subatmospheric pressure a metallic vapor from a metallic vapor source material disposed in said evaporation portion, said heat pipe means further comprising means for introducing into said heat pipe means an inert gas at least a portion of which mixes with said vapor to provide an active medium at subatmospheric pressure; (b) priming laser means for priming the vapor of said active medium to a predetermined intermediate level; (c) tunable laser means for pumping said primed vapor to a virtual upper laser level adjacent a predetermined upper level and producing an output laser beam, said predetermined upper level being one to which a transition from said intermediate level is an optically allowed transition; and (d) delay trigger circuit means for triggering said pumping laser with respect to said priming laser after said priming laser has been triggered and during the time said active medium is primed to said intermediate level by said priming laser.
2.
A laser as in claim 1 wherein: said source material is taken from the group consisting of lithium, potassium, rubidium, cesium and sodium.
3.
A laser as in claim 1 wherein: said source material is potassium, said intermediate level is the 4P.
sub.
1/2 level and said upper level is the 6D.
sub.
3/2 level.
4.
A laser as in claim 3 wherein said heat pipe means includes means for maintaining the operating temperature between about 470.
degree.
K.
and 580.
degree.
K.
and further including means for maintaining the pump laser intensity, between about 10.
sup.
4 to 10.
sup.
5 watts per square centimeter in the active medium.
5.
A laser as in claim 1 wherein: said source material is potassium, said intermediate level is the 4P.
sub.
1/2 level and said upper level is the 5D.
sub
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