Abstract
Experimental results have demonstrated that the use of ejector-nozzle concepts can allow to achieve simultaneously high chemical efficiency and high pressure recovery in a chemical oxygen iodine laser. The estimated small-signal gain of the gain medium generated by these nozzle banks was from 0.5 to 0.8 %/cm. In laser experiments with all nozzle banks (NB-1–NB-5), Pitot pressures of the order of 80 Torr and Mach numbers of ∼2 in the cavity-mixing chamber have been achieved. The geometry of a given ejector-nozzle bank and gas-flow conditions affect the power extraction and chemical efficiency. The main factors for high efficiency and high power are small mixing scale, high area for the oxygen flow, dilution of chlorine by helium, and the arrangement of nozzles. A chemical efficiency of 25% at a power level of ∼900 W was obtained for NB-1 having the smallest mixing scale, parallel injection of all flows, and dilution of oxygen by helium. The highest power of ∼1.2 kW with a chemical efficiency of 19.5% and 160 W/cm2 of specific output power was achieved with NB-5 having the largest area for the oxygen flow and dilution of oxygen by helium.
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