Test bed for a high throughput supersonic chemical oxygen — iodine laser

The paper reports the development of a test bed for a chemical oxygen — iodine laser based on a high throughput jet flow singlet oxygen generator (JSOG). The system provides vertical singlet oxygen extraction followed by horizontal orientation of subsequent subsystems. This design enables the study of flow complexities and engineering aspects of a distributed weight system as an input for mobile and other platform-mounted systems developed for large scale power levels. The system under consideration is modular and consists of twin SOGs, plenum and supersonic nozzle modules, with the active medium produced in the laser cavity. The maximal chlorine flow rate for the laser is ~1.5 mole s^-1 achieving a typical chemical efficiency of about 18%.