Use of 13CO2 in high-power pulsed TEA-lasers
Abstract
The use of 13CO2 in carbon dioxide lasers enhances the available spectral range very significantly but is prohibitively expensive if gas flow through the laser is required. A TEA CO2 laser equipped with a gas recirculation system is described. This reduces gas costs to negligible levels even for expensive isotopic mixtures.
- Publication:
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Review of Scientific Instruments
- Pub Date:
- September 1979
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 1979RScI...50.1141W
- Keywords:
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- Carbon Dioxide Lasers;
- Carbon 13;
- High Power Lasers;
- Isotope Effect;
- Pulsed Lasers;
- Tea Lasers;
- Cost Reduction;
- Gas Flow;
- Gas Mixtures;
- Laser Applications;
- Laser Outputs;
- Recirculative Fluid Flow;
- Lasers and Masers;
- 42.60.By;
- Design of specific laser systems