Five color CO2 laser stabilization and switching
Abstract
A CO2 laser is described which may be actively stabilized in any of four different R/P line pairs in the 10.4 micron band. The laser may be caused to rapidly switch between line pairs. The degree of frequency stability achieved is approximately 1:10 to the 10th, 5 Hz and above, and 1:10 to the 8th, 0-5 Hz. The laser may be switched through the four line pairs in about 100 ms.
- Publication:
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IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics
- Pub Date:
- September 1982
- DOI:
- 10.1109/JQE.1982.1071710
- Bibcode:
- 1982IJQE...18.1326B
- Keywords:
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- Beam Switching;
- Carbon Dioxide Lasers;
- Frequency Stability;
- Laser Stability;
- Switching Circuits;
- Color;
- Differential Amplifiers;
- Feedback Control;
- Light Amplifiers;
- Spectral Energy Distribution;
- Time Response;
- Lasers and Masers