Abstract: Improved mode-locked optical parametric oscillator apparatus comprises a mode-locked pump laser having a cavity with a predetermined effective length l.sub.p and a parametric oscillator having a nonlinear crystal, such as lithium niobate (LiNbO.sub.3), and singly resonant mirrors spaced apart by an effective distance l.sub.o which is substantially less than l.sub.p, i.e., l.sub.p .apprxeq.nl.sub.o where n.apprxeq.5-50. The interaction of the mode-locked pump output with the nonlinear crystal produces parametric outputs at signal (f.sub.s) and idler (f.sub.i) frequencies, the parametric oscillator mirrors being singly resonant at one of those two frequencies. The parametric oscillator may be disposed either externally of or within the pump cavity and the pump laser optionally may be Q-switched.

Abstract: Heat activated means are provided for applying areas of external pressure to the periphery of the panel portion of a cathode ray tube envelope during heat processing. The pressure is directly related to the heat cycle to which the tube envelope is subjected, and induces a state of compression in particularly the panel portion thereby minimizing the occurrence of implosions.

Abstract: A fine magnetically shielded conductor wire comprising a core and a metallic sheath metallurgically secured thereto. The sheath is a magnetically soft alloy having low conductivity and comprising about 75 to 85 percent nickel and about 15 to 25 percent iron.

Abstract: A low insertion force connector for making electrical connection between a circuit board and an external circuit is provided. An elongated outer housing has a centrally located opening with a channel extending longitudinally along the bottom thereof. The channel bottom includes a plurality of outwardly facing ramps along the length thereof. A plurality of contacts are mounted on the housing on either side of the channel with the ends interior the housing being bowed inwardly for contacting a circuit board. An elongated cam which has a longitudinal groove on either side thereof is mounted within the channel and has a bottom surface configured to mate with the ramps of the channel. The cam is adapted to be actuated in the longitudinal direction to ride up the ramps for movement in a transverse direction. An inner housing which is mounted interior the opening of the outer housing and over the cam includes elongated upright sections forming a zone for receiving the circuit board.

Abstract: A composition for a brazing slurry which will form solid connections below 1600.degree. C. The composition comprises, by weight, about 15% to 16.5% fine particle tungsten; about 5% to 6% calcium oxide; about 4% to 5% silicon dioxide; about 6% to 7% aluminum oxide; and about 67% to 70% of an organic binder.The composition is well suited to attaching leads to metallized patterns formed on ceramic substrate and can also be employed as the pattern forming material. When employed in electron discharge devices as a means of forming cathode and/or heater configurations, and for attaching leads thereto, the material is resistant to heater-cathode leakage.

Abstract: A low insertion force connector for making electrical contact between a circuit board and an external circuit is provided. The connector includes a housing having longitudinal side walls forming a zone for receiving the circuit board. A plurality of contacts mounted within the zone have upper portions for contacting opposite sides of the circuit board. Lower portions of the contacts are mounted in the housing. A camming means is journaled for rotation about an axis substantially normal to the side walls and includes camming surfaces engageable therewith so as to move the side walls apart when the camming means is actuated. The contacts are operably associated with the respective sides of the housing so as to apply a negligible insertion force on a circuit board when the camming means is actuated.

Abstract: Polycrystalline ceramic bodies of Si.sub.3 N.sub.4 when prepared with a nucleating agent to obtain an intergranular phase which is substantially crystalline, exhibit improved mechanical strength at elevated temperatures over bodies having a glass-containing intergranular phase.

Abstract: A circuit utilizing a single clamp, and therefore requiring only a single bias supply, to DC clamp the inputs of the three chrominance amplifiers is shown. The clamp employs a switch that is connected to the bias supply and coupled by separate diodes to the inputs of the chrominance amplifiers. The switch and diodes are conductive only during the horizontal retrace period. As a result, during the retrace period, the amplifier inputs are clamped to a DC value determined by the bias supply; during the trace, or information-bearing period the inputs are isolated from the supply, as well as from each other.

Abstract: A glass-to-metal seal for an electrochemical cell terminal includes a formed apertured plate and a tack-shaped terminal pin. The formed apertured plate has a relief ring of concavo-convex configuration and the terminal pin has the vertical section thereof within the aperture and the horizontal section spaced away from the plate. A glass seal is formed between the relief ring and about the terminal pin, including the space between the horizontal section and the plate by the application of heat and pressure within a carbon mold.

Abstract: A horizontal output stage including a switching device for coupling the input of the horizontal output transistor to a feedback network and bias means during startup and to the secondary of an interstage coupling transformer during steady-state operation. During startup the output transistor operates in an oscillatory mode thereby developing an alternating current in the flyback transformer. The supply voltage for the horizontal oscillator is derived from a winding on the flyback transformer. Once this supply voltage reaches the value required for sustained operation of the oscillator, the switching device disconnects the output transistor from the feedback network and couples it to the interstage transformer so that the output transistor is driven by the signal developed by the horizontal oscillator.

Abstract: In a salvaging method for shadow mask containing glass cathode ray tubes whereby the glass funnel portion is separated from the face panel at the frit seal by etching the external portion of the seal and subsequently creating a thermal shock to fracture the frit seal by causing a temperature differential between the funnel and the panel, the improvement comprising protecting the mask with a chemically basic covering prior to separation to insulate the mask from any acidic material which might be present.

Abstract: A photoflash unit having a flashed lamp indicator comprising two layers of film having different colors, one of the layers being a heat-shrinkable material and the other layer being translucent and substantially unaffected by the heat of lamp flashing. An adjacent indicia sheet provides an aperture through which one of the indicator colors is visible. Upon flashing of an associated lamp, the heat shrinkable layer shrivels from view and the color of the other layer becomes visible through the aperture to clearly identify which lamp was flashed. In one embodiment, the two-color indicator is used to identify the last lamp flashed in a sequence, while each of the preceding lamps in the sequence has a respectively associated single-layer color indicator which shrinks away to leave a void upon flashing of the lamp.

Abstract: A microwave diplexer apparatus for handling simultaneously two independent polarized transmitted signals at one frequency and two independent polarized received signals at a lower frequency. In the transmit mode of operation, a pair of input signals are applied to a first orthogonal mode transducer wherein the electric fields of the signals are established at right angles to each other. The orthogonal, linearly-polarizer signals are then transformed by a pin/ridge-loaded circular polarizer device to oppositely-rotating circularly-polarized signals and coupled via an antenna port of a second orthogonal mode transducer to an antenna for transmission to a desired target.

Abstract: A transparent, electrically conductive film of tin oxide is formed on the inner surface of tubing or blown glassware by dispensing therein a solution containing tin chloride and hydrofluoric acid. The solution is dispensed while the glassware is being formed and while the glass is in a softened state.

Abstract: A tungsten extraction process wherein tungsten values are extracted from an aqueous alkali metal tungstate solution by an organic extractant, then stripped from the extractant is improved by using an organic solution consisting essentially of from about 6 to about 10 percent by volume an extractant that is a mixture of trialkyl amines wherein the major constituent is tri-isooctyl amine and from about 90 to about 94 percent by volume of a solvent that is a mixture of alkyl benzenes having molecular weights of either 120, 134 or 148.

Abstract: An electrically fired flash lamp which utilizes a single conductive lead member. The lead protrudes within the lamp's envelope and is covered by a quantity of primer material. A conductive coating (e.g. tin oxide) covers a major portion of the external surface of the envelope and is capacitively coupled through the envelope's wall to the combustible filamentary material (e.g. shredded zirconium) therein. In another embodiment, a second conductive coating is located on the internal surface of the envelope opposite the outer coating and in electrical contact with the filamentary material. Accordingly, both coatings are capacitively coupled when the lamp is electrically fired. A sequentially-activated array of the above lamps is also disclosed.

Abstract: A process for increasing the wetting capabilities of phosphors employed in color cathode ray tubes includes coating the phosphors with a wetting agent which is organic, substantially non-ionic, water or alcohol soluble at 20.degree. C. to 25.degree. C., non-reactive with dichromate sensitized polyvinyl alcohol within the temperature range of about 20.degree. C. to 480.degree. C. and vaporizable at a temperature above about 60.degree. C. and below 480.degree. C. Use of the process reduces agglomeration of phosphor particles when used in dry phosphor screening techniques.

Abstract: The disposition of an array of color phosphor dots on a color cathode ray tube faceplate by conventional photo deposition techniques is facilitated by first coating the individual phosphor particles with polyvinyl alcohol modified with an amino acid such as glutamic or aspartic acid.