Improved Performance of the Pulsed Copper-Vapor-Laser; CuCl-Vapor-Laser with a Compact Device by Applying an AC Continuous-Glow-Discharge
Abstract
An additional continuous-glow-discharge was applied to the aperiodic pulsed CuCl-vapor-laser. The experimental results exhibited an increase of up to 60% the laser-output average power at the maximum point, an increase of 1.5 times the peak power and pulse repetition frequency, and twice the pulse width in the laser oscillation against the laser without the continuous-glow-discharge. Further, the additional technique led the CuCl-vapor-laser to operate in the higher operating-temperature region.
- Publication:
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Japanese Journal of Applied Physics
- Pub Date:
- October 1985
- DOI:
- 10.1143/JJAP.24.L845
- Bibcode:
- 1985JaJAP..24L.845S
- Keywords:
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- Alternating Current;
- Glow Discharges;
- Laser Outputs;
- Metal Vapor Lasers;
- Pulsed Lasers;
- Copper Chlorides;
- Pulse Repetition Rate;
- Lasers and Masers