Performance evaluation of lead vapor heat-pipe as a stimulated Raman converter for XeCl lasers
Abstract
Downshifting the radiation of a XeCl excimer laser in a lead vapor heat pipe has generated 6.6 W of stimulated Raman scattering at 459 nm. Further experiments have been conducted with different buffer gas species; photon conversion efficiencies as high as 66 percent, and an energy slope efficiency of as much as 53 percent, have been obtained by means of Xe buffer gas at 1300 C. The apparatus has operated daily without maintenance over a six-month period.
- Publication:
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IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics
- Pub Date:
- March 1986
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 1986IJQE...22..405R
- Keywords:
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- Excimer Lasers;
- Heat Pipes;
- Laser Outputs;
- Lead (Metal);
- Metal Vapor Lasers;
- Raman Lasers;
- Xenon Chloride Lasers;
- Absorption Spectra;
- Buffers;
- Power Efficiency;
- Pressure Dependence;
- Pulsed Lasers;
- Temperature Dependence;
- Ultraviolet Lasers;
- Lasers and Masers