Title :
High-power Ar-N2transfer laser at 3577 Å
Author :
Ault, E.R. ; Bhaumik, M.L. ; Olson, N. Thomas
Author_Institution :
Northrop Research and Technology Center, Hawthorne, CA, USA
fDate :
8/1/1974 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
A peak laser power of 0.5 MW with an estimated efficiency of 0.2 percent has been obtained at 3577 Å from a mixture of 92 psia Ar and 8 psia N
2which was excited by an

-beam of 400 A/cm
2at 1.3 MeV in a 20-ns pulse. A saturation intensity of ∼100 kW/cm
2was deduced and a beam divergence of 10 mrad was measured from the laser having a 10-cm gain length.
Keywords :
Argon; Current density; Electron optics; Gas lasers; Laser beams; Laser excitation; Optical pulses; Optical scattering; Power lasers; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers;
Journal_Title :
Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of
DOI :
10.1109/JQE.1974.1068212