CW high-pressure tunable CO2laser with a mixture of CO2isotopes

The qualitative theory of the CO2laser at atmospheric pressure was developed. Investigations of a CW CO2laser at high pressure with conventional and waveguide resonators and obtaining CW oscillation in the mixture of three isotopic molecules,¹²C¹⁶O2,¹²C¹⁶O¹⁸O, and¹²C¹⁸O2, are reported. The problem of building a super-high-resolution spectrometer on the basis of a CW high-pressure CO2laser with mixed isotopes is discussed.