The invention herein is directed to a dual-chamber combustion laser
assembly having lighter weight (per unit flow area), a more compact,
flexible configuration for packaging in spacecraft, aircraft, or ground
mobile vehicles, higher mass efficiency from lower heat loss and proven
power extraction efficiency of linear lasers, superior output beam quality
by incremental compensation of gain medium optical path disturbances and
by reduction in time-dependent variations in structural and gain medium
characteristics, lower cost and shorter fabrication time for modular dual
flow laser and linear optics, more efficient pressure recovery with
side-wall isolation nozzles and compact diffuser configurations, and
increased small signal gains for more efficient extraction of overtone
power.
