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Method and apparatus for generating high output power gas discharge based source of extreme ultraviolet radiation and/or soft x-rays

An EUV photon source includes a plasma chamber filled with a gas mixture, multiple electrodes within the plasma chamber defining a plasma region and a central axis, a power supply circuit connected to the electrodes for delivering a main pulse to the electrodes for energizing the plasma around the central axis to produce an EUV beam output along the central axis, and a preionizer for ionizing the gas mixture in preparing to form a dense plasma around the central axis upon application of the main pulse from the power supply circuit to the electrodes. The EUV source preferably includes an ionizing unit and precipitator for collecting contaminant particulates from the output beam path. A set of baffles may be disposed along the beam path outside of the pinch region to diffuse gaseous and contaminant particulate flow emanating from the pinch region and to absorb or reflect acoustic waves emanating from the pinch region away from the pinch region. A clipping aperture, preferably formed of ceramic and / or Al2O3, for at least partially defining an acceptance angle of the EUV beam. The power supply circuit may generates the main pulse and a relatively low energy prepulse for homogenizing the preionized plasma prior to the main pulse. A multi-layer EUV mirror is preferably disposed opposite a beam output side of the pinch region for reflecting radiation along the central axis for output along the beam path of the EUV beam. The EUV mirror preferably has a curved contour for substantially collimating or focusing the reflected radiation. In particular, the EUV mirror may preferably have a hyperbolic contour.
Owner:USHIO DENKI KK

External cavity tunable compact mid-IR laser

A compact mid-IR laser device utilizes an external cavity to tune the laser. The external cavity may employ a Littrow or Littman cavity arrangement. In the Littrow cavity arrangement, a filter, such as a grating, is rotated to provide wavelength gain medium selectivity. In the Littman cavity arrangement, a reflector is rotated to provide tuning. A quantum cascade laser gain medium provides mid-IR frequencies suitable for use in molecular detection by signature absorption spectra. The compact nature of the device is obtained owing to an efficient heat transfer structure, the use of a small diameter aspheric lens for both the output lens and the external cavity lens and a monolithic assembly structure to hold the optical elements in a fixed position relative to one another. The compact housing size may be approximately 20 cm×20 cm×20 cm or less. Efficient heat transfer is achieved using a thermoelectric cooler TEC combined with a high thermal conductivity heat spreader onto which the quantum cascade laser gain medium is thermally coupled. The heat spreader not only serves to dissipate heat and conduct same to the TEC, but also serves as an optical platform to secure the optical elements within the housing in a fixed relationship relative on one another. The small diameter aspheric output and external cavity lens each may have a diameter of 10 mm or less and each lens is positioned to provided a collimated beam output from the quantum cascade laser gain medium. The housing is hermetically sealed to provide a rugged, light weight portable MIR laser source.
Owner:DAYLIGHT SOLUTIONS

Ballast for a discharge lamp

A ballast includes a voltage converter providing a DC power from a DC source voltage. The converter includes a switching element and an energy storing element having an inductance. The switching element is controlled to operate for repetitively switching the DC source voltage in order to store energy into the energy storing element. A power converter is included in the ballast to receive the energy and convert it into an operating power for driving the discharge lamp. A controller provides a command value and turns on and off the switching element for variable periods, respectively in accordance with the command value for generating a necessary power to the lamp. The controller gives a variable OFF-period and a variable ON-period to the switching element. The controller gives a minimum OFF-end limit and a forced maximum OFF-end limit for terminating the OFF-period, and also gives a minimum ON-end limit and a forced maximum ON-end limit for terminating the variable ON-period. The minimum OFF-end limit is defined at a timing when a secondary current flowing from the inductance decreases to zero, while the minimum ON-end limit is defined at a timing when a primary current flowing through the switching element reaches the command value. The controller terminates the OFF-period at the minimum OFF-end limit or at the forced maximum OFF-end limit, whichever comes earlier, and terminates the ON-period at the minimum ON-end limit or at said forced maximum ON-end limit, whichever comes earlier.
Owner:MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC WORKS LTD
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