摘要:
Gas discharge lasers comprise a discharge tube, main and auxiliary electrodes, resonator mirrors and an electrical excitation circuit, which generates light pulses in a sub-nanosecond range. Said lasers have a large application spectrum, for example in the form of an excitation or ionisation light source for different spectroscopy methods associated with an UV-microscope. The known gas discharge lasers are provided with different seals in the discharge tube area at a final assembly stage and are unable to be adjusted afterwards. The inventive maintenance-free gas discharge laser (GL) exhibits a performance of about 100 millions light pulses, the main electrodes (HE1, HE2) are mounted, for the accurate adjustment thereof, in deformable carrier baths (TW) and the resonator mirrors (RS) are mounted in deformable carrier baths (TR), wherein said baths are assembled by hard soldering (HL) in such a way that they are integrally jointed with partial metal layers (MB) on the discharge tube (ER). All ultra-high vacuum-suitable components are sintered in such a way that water is completely removed at a second water limit (355°C). The preferred production method consists in carrying out hard soldering, at greater than 900 °C, of the carrying components with the metal layers (MB) on the discharge tube (ER), in welding the resonator (RS) mirrors, in sintering at the second water limit and subsequently in carrying out the accurate adjustment.