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Knife-edge diffraction as one of the methods of coupling vacuum ultraviolet radiation out of a nontransmitting laser resonator

G. V. Peregudov, V. A. Chirkov


Abstract: It is suggested that far vacuum ultraviolet radiation can be coupled out of a laser resonator by diffraction on a sharp ("knife") edge of a mirror covering part of a beam. It is reported that a model experiment carried out on a neodymium laser shows that a considerable fraction of the energy can be coupled out in this way.

UDC: 621.373.826+537.531

PACS: 42.55.Rz, 42.79.Bh, 42.60.Da

Received: 02.01.1984
Revised: 30.03.1984

 English version: Soviet Journal of Quantum Electronics, 1984, 14:12, 1646–1648

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