Toward efficient excimer lasers
Abstract
The discovery of rare-gas-monohalide and molecular-halogen lasers has led to the development of krypton- and argon-fluoride systems with the capacity to produce 100-joule pulses under direct excitation by electron beams. In a comparison of the two pumping methods, it is found that the controlled-discharge technique gives much higher average power than the avalanche approach. The reactions which take place in the KrF laser are investigated.
- Publication:
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Laser Focus
- Pub Date:
- October 1976
- Bibcode:
- 1976LaFoc..12...52J
- Keywords:
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- Electron Pumping;
- Energy Conversion Efficiency;
- Gas Lasers;
- Laser Outputs;
- Pulsed Lasers;
- Electron Avalanche;
- Fluorides;
- Gas Discharges;
- Halogens;
- Krypton;
- Rare Gases;
- Lasers and Masers