Control of laser radiation parameters

Optimisation of the pump and output parameters of an electron-beam-controlled CO₂ laser by lowering the active-mixture pressure

A. I. Sidorov, V. N. Chirkov, I. L. Yachnev

Institute of Laser Physics of the S. I. Vavilov State Optical Institute, St. Peterburg

Abstract: An experimental study established the feasibility of improving the spatial and energy parameters of the radiation from an electron-beam-controlled CO₂ laser, emitting pulses several tens of microseconds long, by lowering the active-mixture pressure from 1 to 0.5 bar.

PACS: 42.55.Lt, 42.60.Lh

Received: 26.07.1994

 English version: Quantum Electronics, 1995, 25:5, 439–441

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