Electron-beam-controlled CO2 laser with plasma mirror
Abstract
A new high-power electron-beam-controlled CO2 laser scheme, based on the use of the molecular properties of a high-temperature laser plasma (plasma mirror) produced by the action of the laser radiation on the surface of a solid target and serving as one of the mirrors of the laser resonator, is investigated in detail. The scheme makes it possible to generate laser pulses of nanosecond duration with a power of several dozen gigawatts and an efficiency of about 6-10% and obtain a laser plasma with a temperature of several million degrees. The possibility of practical utilization of a plasma mirror as a powerful source of soft x rays is demonstrated.
- Publication:
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Trudy Akademiia Nauk SSSR Fizicheskii Institut
- Pub Date:
- March 1981
- Bibcode:
- 1981TrSSR.116..118K
- Keywords:
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- Carbon Dioxide Lasers;
- Electron Pumping;
- High Power Lasers;
- Laser Plasmas;
- Ultrashort Pulsed Lasers;
- Beam Switching;
- High Temperature Plasmas;
- Laser Fusion;
- Pulse Generators;
- X Rays;
- Lasers and Masers