A 50-kW electric-discharge CO2 laser
Abstract
This report describes an electric-discharge carbon dioxide mixing laser which has been designed and constructed at MRL. The laser, which utilizes a plasma injection stabilized discharge in atmospheric-pressure nitrogen, delivers an output power of 50 kW for reservoir-limited durations of 3 seconds at an overall efficiency of 7%.
- Publication:
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NASA STI/Recon Technical Report N
- Pub Date:
- July 1984
- Bibcode:
- 1984STIN...8521644W
- Keywords:
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- Carbon Dioxide Lasers;
- Continuous Wave Lasers;
- Gas Injection;
- High Pressure;
- Nitrogen Plasma;
- Electric Discharges;
- Output;
- Power Efficiency;
- Resonators;
- Stabilization;
- Vacuum Pumps;
- Lasers and Masers