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Lasers

Pulsed chemical oxygen–iodine laser with bulk formation of iodine atoms by an electric discharge

N. P. Vagin, V. S. Pazyuk, N. N. Yuryshev

P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow

Abstract: A preliminary investigation was made of a chemical oxygen–iodine laser with bulk formation of iodine atoms in an electric discharge. The output energy was comparable with that obtained for a photolysis variant of the laser, but the technical efficiency of the investigated discharge variant was much higher (91%). The pulse power (~100 kW) was approximately three orders of magnitude higher than the power of a cw chemical oxygen–iodine laser with the same chlorine flow rate.

PACS: 42.55.Ks, 42.60.Lh

Received: 23.12.1994

 English version: Quantum Electronics, 1995, 25:8, 746–748

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