High-power, high-pressure, discharge-heated copper vapor laser

doi:10.1016/0030-4018(79)90044-0

Optics Communications

Volume 30, Issue 1, July 1979, Pages 70-74

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Abstract

We have constructed a 40 mm diameter discharge-heated longitudinal copper vapor laser. The laser performs most efficiently at a neon buffer gas pressure of 200–600 Torr. The laser has produced over 20 W at 4 kHz as an oscillator and 30 W at 4 kHz and 20 W at 2 kHz (7.5 and 10 mJ/pulse) as an amplifier.

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High-power, high-pressure, discharge-heated copper vapor laser

Abstract

Optics Comm.

Bull. Am. Phys. Soc.

Rev. Sci. Inst.

Exxon Research and Engineering Co. Report No. AD/A-005 004

Appl. Phys. Lett.

Appl. Phys. Lett.