High-repetition-rate CF4 laser
Abstract
A 16-micron CF4 laser oscillator has operated at 1 kHz in a cooled static cell. Pump energies required from the low-pressure, Q-switched, CW-discharge CO2 laser were as low as 60 microjoules. The laser cavity was a multiple-pass off-axis-path two-mirror resonator in a ring configuration. CF4 laser power at 615 per cm and a 1-kHz repetition rate exceeded 300 microwatts.
- Publication:
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Optics Letters
- Pub Date:
- May 1982
- DOI:
- 10.1364/OL.7.000201
- Bibcode:
- 1982OptL....7..201T
- Keywords:
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- Carbon Tetrafluoride;
- Gas Lasers;
- Infrared Lasers;
- Laser Pumping;
- Organic Lasers;
- Pulsed Lasers;
- Carbon Dioxide Lasers;
- Continuous Wave Lasers;
- Laser Cavities;
- Optical Resonators;
- Pulse Rate;
- Q Switched Lasers;
- Lasers and Masers;
- LASERS