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Lasers

Planar repetitively pulsed microwave-pumped CO₂ laser

A. P. Mineev, S. M. Nefedov, P. P. Pashinin

Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow

Abstract: A planar repetitively pulsed microwave-pumped CO₂ laser with discharge channel lengths of 250 and 470 mm is experimentally investigated. An average laser power of 60 W at a wavelength of 10.6 μm is attained. A peak power of 1300 W is reached in the repetitively pulsed regime. The dependences of the shape and energy of CO₂ laser pulse on the introduced power, working gas mixture composition and pressure, and pump-pulse repetition rate and width are analysed.

PACS: 42.55.Lt, 42.60.By, 42.60.Da, 52.80.Pi

Received: 14.07.2010
Revised: 05.10.2010

 English version: Quantum Electronics, 2011, 41:2, 115–119

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