( 1298 of 1298 ) |
United States Patent | 3,566,177 |
February 23, 1971 |
An arc-discharge device for efficiently producing radiation in selected portions of the spectrum. The device contains a discharge sustaining filling of inert gas, mercury, and sodium or potassium. The ratios of the materials and the operational mode are such that the resonance lines of the sodium and potassium are self-reversed and the radiation is broadened as a continuum in the portions of the spectrum adjacent the respective resonance lines. These devices can be advantageously used to optically pump neodymium-doped yttrium-aluminum-garnet laser material, which strongly absorbs radiation in the portions of the spectrum in which these devices generate radiation.
Inventors: | Daniel A. Larson (Cedar Grove, NJ) |
Assignee: |
Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA
( |
Appl. No.: | 04/740,180 |
Filed: | June 26, 1968 |
Current U.S. Class: | 313/640 ; 313/571; 372/35; 372/69 |
Current International Class: | H01J 61/12 (20060101); H01J 61/22 (20060101); H01j 017/20 (); H01s 003/09 () |
Field of Search: | 313/184,229 331/94.5,(Inquired) |
3234421 | February 1966 | Reiling |
3248590 | April 1966 | Schmidt |
3252103 | May 1966 | Geusic et al. |
3317778 | May 1967 | Timmermans et al. |
3384798 | May 1968 | Schmidt |
Electronics, Vol. 40, No. 19, September 18, 1967, Article Entitled . "Righter Light," pages 44, 45. (copy in 313--229 Lit.). |