High-power, high-pressure, discharge-heated copper vapor laser
Abstract
We have constructed a 40 mm diameter discharge-heated longitudinal copper vapor laser. The laser performs most efficiently at a neon buffer gas pressure of 200-600 Torr. The laser has produced over 20 W at 4 kHz as an oscillator and 30 W at 4 kHz and 20 W at 2 kHz (7.5 and 10 mJ/pulse) as an amplifier.
- Publication:
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Optics Communications
- Pub Date:
- July 1979
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 1979OptCo..30...70S
- Keywords:
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- Copper;
- High Power Lasers;
- Laser Outputs;
- Metal Vapor Lasers;
- Gas Discharges;
- Gas Pressure;
- High Pressure;
- Lasing;
- Pulse Rate;
- Lasers and Masers