High intensity radiant energy source

• US 3,274,437 A
• Filed: 11/20/1963
• Issued: 09/20/1966
• Est. Priority Date: 11/20/1963
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Frithjof N. Mastrup
• Original Assignee: Frithjof N. Mastrup
• Inventors: Mastrup, Frithjof N.
• Application Number:
  US04/325,084
• Time in Patent Office: 1,035 Days
• US Class Current: 315/111.01
• CPC Class Codes: H01J 37/32055 Arc discharge
• CPC Class Codes: H01T 1/00 Details of spark gaps

Claims

2. IN AN APPARATUS FOR GENERATING PULSES OF LIGHT ENERGY;

A PAIR OF SPACED ELECTRODES;

CIRCUIT MEANS FOR APPLYING ELECTRICAL POTENTIAL BETWEEN SAID ELECTRODES TO PRODUCE SHORT TIME DURATION ARC DISCHARGES THEREBETWEEN WITH THE TIME BETWEEN SUCCESSIVE DISCHARGES BEING RELATIVELY LONG AS COMPARED TO THE TIME DURATION OF A GIVEN ARC DISCHARGE;

INSULATING MEANS EXTENDING FROM ONE OF SAID ELECTRODES TO THE OTHER AND DEFINING AN ARC DISCHARGE PASSAGEWAY IN WHICH SAID ARC DISCHARGE OCCUR;

SAID INSULATING MEANS HAVING PASSAGEWAY WALL PORTIONS WHICH INCLUDE AN ELECTRIC ARC RESPONSIVE GASEVOLVING SUBSTANCE WHICH IS CHARACTERIZED IN THAT THE GASES RELEASED THEREFROM, WHEN HEATED BY INTENSE ELECTRICAL DISCHARGE THERETHROUGH, EMIT RADIATION SUBSTANTIALLY CORRESPONDING TO THAT OF A BLACK BODY