Compact, high-power FIR NH3 laser pumped in a CO2 laser cavity
Abstract
A compact CO2-NH3 FIR laser system, with an NH3 laser cavity inserted in the pump CO2 laser cavity, was designed. Temporally smooth and reproducible single mode NH3 laser pulses with an energy of 5 mJ (20 kW peak power) were obtained at the 152-micron line when optically pumped by the injection-locked single-mode CO2 laser with a pulse energy of 0.3 J.
- Publication:
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IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics
- Pub Date:
- September 1986
- DOI:
- 10.1109/JQE.1986.1073151
- Bibcode:
- 1986IJQE...22.1600H
- Keywords:
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- Ammonia;
- Carbon Dioxide Lasers;
- Chemical Lasers;
- High Power Lasers;
- Infrared Lasers;
- Laser Pumping;
- Far Infrared Radiation;
- Laser Cavities;
- Laser Modes;
- Laser Outputs;
- Pulsed Lasers;
- Lasers and Masers