The supersonic chemical oxygen iodine laser (SCOIL) is full of promise as an industrial laser due to its high power and efficiency. The most important part of the SCOIL is a singlet oxygen generator (SOG) which produces the energy source of the laser system. Although there are several types in SOG, a jet type SOG (JSOG) is expected to be the most suitable for the SCOIL. We conducted tests of a slit nozzle JSOG that is a new type of JSOG and compared it with the generally used round nozzle JSOG.

Date Published: 4 April 1997
PDF: 4 pages
Proc. SPIE 3092, XI International Symposium on Gas Flow and Chemical Lasers and High-Power Laser Conference, (4 April 1997); doi: 10.1117/12.270128

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 3092:
XI International Symposium on Gas Flow and Chemical Lasers and High-Power Laser Conference
Denis R. Hall; Howard J. Baker, Editor(s)