WO2009105174A2 - Diffusion-cooled co2 laser with flexible housing - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates in general to diffusion cooled carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) lasers.
- the invention relates in particular to low-power (for example, having an output power of about 100 Watts or less) diffusion- cooled CO 2 lasers including a gas-tight housing with resonator mirrors mounted thereon.
- a diffusion-cooled CO 2 laser is a gas-discharge laser in which cooling of the discharge occurs by having a small separation between cooled electrodes forming the discharge.
- the separation is sufficiently small that there is a high probability excited state CO 2 molecules residing in a relatively long lifetime "010" bending vibration state (a non-lasing state only marginally above the ground state), can collide with the cooled electrodes.
- This collision process depopulates the "010” state and prevents a "population bottle neck” from developing.
- the depopulation of the "010” lower level increases the population inversion in the upper "lasing" level which leads .to higher laser output power and efficiency.
- a gas-discharge laser in accordance with the present invention comprises a housing having first and second opposite longitudinal metal walls each thereof connected to third and fourth opposite longitudinal metal walls, the housing being closed by first and second end walls.
- Each of the first and second longitudinal walls has a rigid cooling portion surrounded by a flexible portion located between the longitudinal walls and end walls.
- each wall has a plurality of cooling fins extending outwardly therefrom.
- the first, second, third, and fourth longitudinal walls of the housing may be conveniently formed from a single extrusion of one of aluminum and an alloy of aluminum.
- the first and second longitudinal walls of the housing are similarly configured and the third and fourth longitudinal walls of the housing are similarly configured, thereby providing an essentially symmetrical arrangement of the housing.
- a gas-discharge laser in accordance with the present invention comprises a housing containing a lasing gas mixture, the housing having first and second opposite longitudinal metal walls each thereof connected to third and fourth opposite longitudinal metal walls, the housing being closed by first and second end walls.
- First and second electrodes are located in the housing, spaced apart and parallel to each other, and in thermal communication with respectively the first and second longitudinal walls of the housing.
- An electrical power supply is mounted outside of the housing on the third longitudinal wall and arranged to apply an electrical potential to one of the first and second electrodes. The power supply is thermally insulated from the third longitudinal wall.
- FIG. 1 is a lateral cross-section view schematically illustrating one preferred embodiment a gas-discharge laser in accordance with the present invention including an air-cooled laser housing and an electrode and discharge-channel assembly in thermal contact with rigid cooling-portions of upper and lower walls of the assembly, the cooling portions being connected to rigid sidewalls of the housing via flexible diaphragm portions of the upper and lower walls, and having cooling-fins extending longitudinally therealong.
- FIG. IA is a lateral cross-section view depicting the electrode and discharge-channel assembly UfFIG. 1, outside of the housing of FIG. 1.
- FIG. 2 is a foreshortened longitudinal cross-section view seen in the direction 2-2 of FIG. 1 schematically illustrating further details of the laser of FIG. 1 including top and bottom covers attached to the sidewalls of the housing and a fan assembly at one end of the housing arranged to force air between the fins of the cooling portions of the upper and lower walls of the housing and the top and bottom cover plates.
- FIG. 3 is a plan-view from above schematically illustrating further details of the cooling fins and the diaphragm portion of the housing.
- FIG. 4 is a is a lateral cross-section view schematically illustrating one arrangement in accordance with the present invention for attaching an RF power supply to the gas-discharge laser of FIG. 1.
- FIG. 1, FIG. IA, FIG. 2, and FIG. 3 schematically illustrate a preferred embodiment of a CO 2 (gas- discharge) laser 10 in accordance with the present invention.
- Laser 10 includes gas-tight laser housing 11 surrounding an enclosure 12, which normally includes a lasing gas mixture at a pressure less than atmospheric pressure.
- a lasing gas mixture is a mixture of CO 2 , nitrogen (N 2 ) xenon (Xe) and helium (He) in a percentage ratio of 12:16:5:67 respectively, and a total pressure of about 95.0 Torr.
- Housing 11 has upper and lower walls 14 and 16, respectively (here, essentially identically configured), and sidewalls 18 and 20. It is assumed here that these four walls are formed in an extrusion, preferably of aluminum or an alloy thereof. The walls could be separately assembled without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention.
- the mirrors define a Z-fold resonator having a twice-folded axis 30.
- Mirrors 26 and 29 are end-mirrors (terminating mirrors) of the resonator and mirrors 27 and 28 are fold-mirrors. It is assumed that mirror 29 is an output-mirror of the resonator.
- FIGS 1-3 details of mirror mounting arrangements including means for aligning the mirrors are omitted from FIGS 1-3 for simplicity of illustration. Details of such arrangements are described in U.S. Patent No. 6,192,061, assigned to the assignee of the present invention and the complete disclosure of which is hereby incorporated by reference. It should also be noted that the Z-fold waveguide resonator described, here is but one example of a laser resonator configuration that can be incorporated in housing 11. Those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains may chose to incorporate other resonator configurations without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention.
- Such other configurations include, but are not limited to, unstable resonators with slab laser discharges, folded free-space Gaussian-mode resonators in slab laser discharges, or folded resonators in hollow ceramic discharge tubes. It will be recognized, of course, that whatever the resonator configuration, there will be at leased one mirror attached to each of end walls 22 and 24.
- an electrode-and-discharge-channel assembly 34 Located in enclosure 12 is an electrode-and-discharge-channel assembly 34, hereinafter, referred to simply as an electrode assembly. Only selected components of the electrode assembly are numerically designated in FIG.l and FIG. 2 for simplicity of illustration. All components of the electrode assembly are numerically designated in FIG. IA. Components of the electrode assembly are not shown in FIG. 3.
- Electrode assembly 34 is in thermal contact with upper and lower walls 14 and 16 of the housing.
- the electrode assembly includes upper and lower electrodes 36 and 38 respectively.
- Sandwiched between the electrodes is a slab 40 of an electrically insulating material, most preferably an electrically insulating material having a relatively high thermal conductivity, such as an aluminum oxide ceramic or a beryllium oxide ceramic.
- slab 40 there are open-ended discharge channels 42, here, two parallel channels having a diagonal channel therebetween. These channels contain a discharge that is excited in the lasing gas mixture when an electrical potential (typically an RF potential) is applied to the electrodes.
- an electrical potential typically an RF potential
- covering each of the electrodes is an insulator 44 and covering each insulator is a metal cap 46.
- inductances 48 spaced apart along the electrodes and joining the electrodes.
- One purpose of such inductors is to flatten out the voltage distribution along the electrode length. This prevents discharge "hot-spots" from occurring along the length of the discharge.
- the electrode assembly When assembled into enclosure 12 housing 11, the electrode assembly should be in thermal contact with the rigid portions 17 of each of the upper and lower walls of the enclosure.
- either of the electrodes could be selected as a live or "hot" electrode to which RF potential applied, with the other electrode grounded by connecting that electrode via a suitable lead the housing and grounding the housing. It is also possible to have the grounded electrode directly in contact with the housing by omitting the corresponding insulator 44. This, however, would detract from the symmetry of the electrode assembly.
- each of the walls includes a rigidly configured central portion or cooling-member 17, having cooling fins 19 extending outwardly therefrom and parallel to the length direction of the housing.
- the upper and lower walls are identically configured, only features of upper wall 14 are numerically designated, for simplicity of illustration.
- Rigid central wall-portion 17 is surrounded by a relatively thin membrane-portion or diaphragm-portion 21.
- walls 14 and 16 can initially have a uniform thickness with diaphragm-portion 21 thereof subsequently formed by machining a channel in each the walls. This circumferential channel can extend all of the way between rigid-portion 17 and the sidewalls, as depicted in FIG. 1. It is, however, advisable to leave thickened portions 23 on each end of each one of the upper and lower walls (see FIGS 2 and 3) to facilitate attaching and sealing end-walls 22 and 24 to the housing.
- the housing for a 70.0 W waveguide CO 2 laser may have a length of about 54.0 centimeters (cm) a width of about 10.0 cm, and a height of about 6.0 cm.
- Diaphragm portion 21 of the upper and lower walls may have a width of about 2.0cm and a thickness of about 0.16 cm.
- the diaphragm portion of the upper and lower walls preferably has a width to thickness ratio greater than about 10:1.
- Components of electrode assembly 34 that are in thermal contact with the upper and lower walls as discussed above should not extend longitudinally or laterally under the diaphragm portions of the walls.
- the diaphragm portions of the upper and lower walls preferably have a width to thickness ratio sufficiently high that rigid-portions 17 of the upper and lower walls can move (piston-like) as indicated in FIG. 1 by arrows A, in response to a difference in pressure between the inside and outside of enclosure 12.
- the pressure inside the enclosure is less than the pressure (atmospheric pressure) outside of the enclosure, absent any other constraint, rigid portions 17 of the upper and lower walls will be urged toward each other with a force sufficient to maintain electrode assembly 34 in contact with the rigid portions of the upper and lower walls.
- Side-walls 18 and 20 of housing 11 extend above upper wall 14 and below lower wall 16 preferably sufficient to barely clear longitudinally-extending cooling fins 19.
- Upper and lower cover plates 50 and 52 respectively are attached to the housing via side-walls 18 and 20.
- Screws 54 and 56 extend through apertures 58 and 60, respectively, in cover plates 50 and 52, respectively and engage threaded apertures not specifically designated in rigid portions 17 of the upper and lower walls.
- the diaphragm (flexure) portion 21 of the upper and lower walls provides that turning the screws in one direction can be used to slightly raise the rigid portions of the upper and lower walls, for example, to draw the rigid portions of the walls apart.
- the diaphragm portions of the upper and lower walls of the housing provides mechanical decoupling of the rigid portions of the upper and lower walls and the electrode assembly clamped therebetween from the side walls and end walls that provide support for the laser resonator. Accordingly, while the highly symmetrical arrangement of the upper and lower walls of the electrode assembly will minimize the possibility of thermal distortion of that assembly any such distortion will not be transmitted to the laser resonator and thermally induced beam pointing errors will be minimized.
- the provision of cooling fins on both upper and lower walls of the enclosures optimizes the absolute air-cooling of the enclosure.
- FIG. 2 an arrangement is depicted which can further optimize air cooling.
- side-walls 18 and 20 of housing 11 (only wall 18 visible in FIG. 2) and upper and cover plates 50 and 52 are extended beyond end wall 24 of the housing.
- a fan-assembly 70 including fan-blades 72.
- a baffle 74 is provided to provide some direction of air flow.
- One mode of operation of the fan forces air through the space, including cooling fins 19, between each of the upper and lower walls of the housing and the corresponding cover plate as indicated by dotted lines 76.
- cooling fins 19 could be still further optimized by configuring cooling fins 19 to provide turbulent air-flow therebetween by any means known in the art, for example, by providing two sets of fins laterally staggered such that fins of one set are aligned with spaces between fins in the other set.
- FIG. 4 schematically illustrates an example 1OA of laser 10, in which is illustrated an arrangement for mounting an RF power-supply 80 to housing 11, the power supply being used to apply RF potential across electrodes 36 and 38.
- power supply 80 has a cover 82 that is mounted on side- wall 18 of laser housing 11, i.e., on a wall perpendicular to the plane of electrodes 36 and 38 and the folded resonator. In the mounting and configuration the power supply, steps are taken to optimize cooling of the power supply and minimizing transfer to housing 11 of any heat that can not be removed by the cooling.
- Power supply 80 includes a metal cover 82 having a top portion 84 remote from side-wall wall 18. Cover-portion 84 has cooling fins 90 on an outer surface thereof to promote cooling thereof.
- PCB board 88 Electronic circuitry of the RF power supply is assembled on a printed circuit board (PCB) 88.
- PCB board 88 is mounted in thermal contact with top 84, of the cover to facilitate transfer of heat from the circuitry to the top of the cover, and place the circuitry remote from side-wall 18 of the housing.
- Cover 82 is preferably open ended, i.e., the cover preferably has only top 84 and two sides 83 and 85. This allows air to circulate through the cover to assist in cooling the electronic circuitry.
- cover 82 is mounted on the side-wall with a gasket 90, having a relatively low thermal conductivity, located between the cover and the side wall.
- a gasket 90 having a relatively low thermal conductivity, located between the cover and the side wall.
- One suitable material for the gasket is an epoxy/fiberglass material.
- RF potential from PCB 88 is connected, via an electrically insulating feed-through 92 in side- wall 18, to upper electrode 36 of electrode assembly 34. This would usually be termed the "hot" electrode by practitioners of the art.
- Lower electrode 38 of the electrode assembly is electrically connected to side-wall 20 of housing 11, which can be electrically grounded.
- a gas-discharge laser in summary, includes a housing having a symmetrical arrangement of upper and lower cooling members for removing heat generated in gas-discharge excited by an electrode assembly.
- the electrode assembly is clamped between the cooling members and is itself essentially symmetrically arranged. These symmetrical arrangements minimize the possibility of bending or distorting the electrode assembly.
- the cooling members and the electrode assembly held therein are mechanically isolated in the housing by a surrounding diaphragm that connects the cooling members to side-walls of the housing. This reduces the possibility of any distortion of the electrode assembly that does occur being transmitted to the side walls of the housing.
- An RF power-supply for supply the electrode assembly is mounted on one of the sidewalls to avoid disturbing the symmetry of the cooling and electrode arrangements.
- Heat generating components in the power supply are separately cooled by the lid of an open-ended cover and are spaced apart from the housing. The cover is thermally insulated from the housing.
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