Inductively stabilized, long pulse duration transverse discharge apparatus
Abstract
An inductively stabilized, long pulse duration transverse discharge apparatus is presented. The use of a segmented electrode where each segment is attached to an inductive element permits high-energy, high-efficiency, long pulsed laser outputs to be obtained. The apparatus was demonstrated with rare gas halide lasing media. Orders of magnitude increase in pulse repetition frequency are obtained in lasing devices that do not utilize gas flow.
- Publication:
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Patent Application Department of Energy
- Pub Date:
- September 1983
- Bibcode:
- 1983doe..reptS....S
- Keywords:
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- Electric Discharges;
- Excimer Lasers;
- Pulse Duration;
- Stability;
- Electrodes;
- Electron Density (Concentration);
- High Power Lasers;
- Patent Applications;
- Pulse Repetition Rate;
- Lasers and Masers