Broadband gas isolator for high-power CO2 lasers
Abstract
The design and evaluation of an efficient multicomponent, nonlinear gas isolator are described. Such an SF6-based isolator has been used successfully to suppress parasitic oscillations in a large-aperture CO2 laser system.
- Publication:
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Optics Letters
- Pub Date:
- February 1978
- DOI:
- 10.1364/OL.2.000039
- Bibcode:
- 1978OptL....2...39C
- Keywords:
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- Broadband Amplifiers;
- Carbon Dioxide Lasers;
- Gas Mixtures;
- Isolators;
- Laser Outputs;
- Light Amplifiers;
- Amplifier Design;
- High Gain;
- Noise Reduction;
- Performance Tests;
- Power Amplifiers;
- Pulsed Lasers;
- Lasers and Masers;
- LASERS: CARBON DIOXIDE