Low-threshold solar-pumped laser using C2F5I
Abstract
Solar-pumped lasing was achieved with pentafluoroethyl iodide, C2F5I, a new alkyl-iodide. Output power and energy of 350 mW and 45 mJ were achieved. This lasant was found to have the lowest lasing threshold of any solar-pumped gas laser to date at approximately 100 solar constants. Such low threshold enables the use in space of simple, trough solar collectors.
- Publication:
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Applied Physics Letters
- Pub Date:
- August 1986
- DOI:
- 10.1063/1.97589
- Bibcode:
- 1986ApPhL..49..369D
- Keywords:
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- Fluoro Compounds;
- Gas Lasers;
- Iodine Compounds;
- Laser Pumping;
- Lasing;
- Solar-Pumped Lasers;
- Absorption Cross Sections;
- Laser Outputs;
- Oscillographs;
- Lasers and Masers