Increased efficiency of high-beam quality extraction from a copper vapor laser with H2–Ne admixtures

Michael J. Withford, Daniel J.W. Brown, David W. Coutts, James A. Piper

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Abstract

We report results of a detailed study investigating the effects of hydrogen additive on the generation of high-beam quality output from a copper vapor laser. Increases up to 390% were observed for the power extracted in the high-beam quality component of laser output, however, the power of the low beam quality output remained relatively unchanged. We attribute these results to modification of the spatio-temporal characteristics of the laser gain with added H2.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)898-902
Number of pages5
JournalIEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics
Volume31
Issue number5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1995

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Keywords

  • OUTPUT CHARACTERISTICS
  • HYDROGEN
  • POWER

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