The possibility of constructing a photoionization CO2-laser with a high pulse repetition frequency
Abstract
An experimental study of an atmospheric-pressure photoionization CO2-laser with a high pulse repetition frequency is reported. The test circuit is described, and attention is given to the dependence of the current density in the discharge on initial field strength, and to the dependence of lasing energy on initial field strength. A lasing pulse power of 20 MW was achieved for a pulse repetition frequency of 200 Hz for a comparatively simple laser system design. It is concluded that a self-sustained discharge with photoionization may be suitable for repetitively pulsed lasers at mean feed source powers of several hundred frequencies and pulse repetition frequencies of a few hundred Hz.
- Publication:
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Akademiia Nauk SSSR Izvestiia Seriia Fizicheskaia
- Pub Date:
- October 1980
- Bibcode:
- 1980IzSSR..44.2113A
- Keywords:
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- Carbon Dioxide Lasers;
- Photoionization;
- Pulse Frequency Modulation;
- Pulsed Lasers;
- Circuit Diagrams;
- Commutation;
- Current Density;
- Field Strength;
- Glass Fiber Reinforced Plastics;
- Lc Circuits;
- Quartz;
- Lasers and Masers