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Lasers and amplifiers

Effects limiting the average power of compact pulse-periodic KrF lasers

V. M. Borisov, A. V. Borisov, I. E. Bragin, A. Yu. Vinokhodov

Troitsk Institute for Innovation and Fusion Research

Abstract: Comparative investigations were made of the characteristics of two compact KrF lasers with different geometries and different gas flow velocities. The same electric-discharge system, optimised to reach a high KrF laser efficiency (~ 3.5%), was used in both lasers. It was established that at a high pulse repetition frequency the specific nature of acoustic perturbations, which appeared in the gasdynamic channel, influenced the homogeneity of the discharge and of the laser radiation.

PACS: 42.55.Gp, 42.60.Jf

Received: 23.09.1994

 English version: Quantum Electronics, 1995, 25:5, 421–425

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