In an image information recording apparatus which comprises a laser oscillator, means for deflecting and modulating the laser beam from the laser oscillator by an external signal, a recording medium, optical means for imaging the modulated laser beam on the recording medium and means for causing the laser beam to scan over the recording medium, the light path of the laser beam is divided into a plurality of light path sections and partition plates are provided before and behind each of the light...

A dye laser employing a solution of: ##STR1## wherein R and R.sub.1 independently of one another represent hydrogen, alkyl, cycloalkyl or aralkyl or can form, with R.sub.2 or R.sub.3, or with R.sub.4 or R.sub.5, a partially hydrogenated 5-membered or 6-membered heterocyclic ring, R.sub.2 - R.sub.5 independently of one another represent hydrogen, alkyl, alkoxy or halogen or can form, with R or R.sub.1, a partially hydrogenated 5-membered or 6-membered heterocyclic ring, Me represents hydrogen, a ...

A light screen device for measuring the velocity of a projectile comprising laser disposed opposite to one end of a first plane reflecting mirror and inclined with respect thereto to cause a laser beam to strike the first plane reflecting mirror and in turn to reflect the beam to a second plane mirror and successively reflecting the beam back and forth vertically to higher points on each mirror surface forming a criss-cross rectangularly shaped light grid network therebetween. A light detector i...

A semiconductor laser has a semiconductor base having (100) orientation. A semiconductor mesa of a III-V material is grown on the base by liquid phase epitaxy. The semiconductor mesa has crystallographic facets perpendicular to the base and parallel to one another. The crystallographic facets from the reflecting mirrors of a lasing cavity.

A solid-state laser in which an inverse population is formed at the levels of dope ions of the elements with unfilled electron shells by means of impact excitation of said ions with hot carriers, made on the basis of an electroluminescent capacitor in which the layer of electroluminescent substance is optically homogeneous, doped with said elements, and serves as the active element of the laser. The electrodes of the capacitor perform the functions of the Fabry-Perot cavity mirrors and those of ...

The disclosure relates to a pulsed gas laser comprising an optical resonant cavity, a CO.sub.2 lasing medium, structure for containing the CO.sub.2 lasing medium within the optical cavity and a device for causing a population inversion in the lasing medium, with a novel improvement comprising structure for causing a laser pulse comprising a wavelength in the near 14 .mu.m and near 16 .mu.m range. The structure for cooling the CO.sub.2 lasing medium to less than about -40.degree. C as well is a s...

An optical element formed of birefringent material is placed in the resonant optical beam path of a gas laser. A proof mass is fixedly attached to the birefringent element to form an integral unit therewith, this unit being contained within the same chamber as the lasing gas. Means are provided to subject the laser beam to a transverse magnetic field which effectively operates to keep the beam separated into E and O rays which are polarized in orthogonal relationship to each other. The proof mas...

The invention provides a closed television system for viewing the pulsed laser beam machining of a workpiece said system including a TV camera tube which, in use, is pointed at the area of incidence of the laser beam on said workpiece, a rotary shutter in the optical path of said TV camera tube for intercepting intermittently the light passing along said optical path, and means for synchronising the pulsing of the laser and the rotation of said shutter so that, in use, said shutter prevents ligh...

There is disclosed a gaseous laser, whose cathode is a conductive coating upon the walls of a cathode volume, the geometric design of the cathode, cathode volume, and cathode-connecting volume being such as to impede sputtering of the cathode.

A drift compensated and intensity averaged extensometer for measuring the diameter or other properties of a substantially cylindrical sample based upon the shadow of the sample. A beam of laser light is shaped to provide a beam with a uniform intensity along an axis normal to the sample. After passing the sample, the portion of the beam not striking said sample is divided by a beam splitter into a reference signal and a measurement signal. Both of these beams are then chopped by a light chopper ...