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Lasers and amplifiers

Three-electrode discharge laser with a middle control electrode

V. V. Borovkov, V. V. Voronin, S. L. Voronov, D. I. Zenkov, B. V. Lazhintsev, V. A. Nor-Arevyan, V. A. Tananakin, G. I. Fedorov, I. M. Yutkin

Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Russian Federal Nuclear Center – All-Russian Research Institute of Experimental Physics", Arzamas-16, Nizhny Novgorod region

Abstract: A three-electrode discharge laser was developed. The discharge is ignited by the application of a high-voltage pulse to the middle control electrode. A storage capacitor for the main discharge is connected directly to the other two electrodes. The examples of excimer XeCI and KrF lasers, and also of an Ar–Xe laser, are used to show that such excitation of the active medium can reduce by tens of times the load on the switches in the power supply system.

PACS: 42.55.Gp, 52.80.Hc

Received: 24.01.1995

 English version: Quantum Electronics, 1995, 25:5, 414–415

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