Title :
Pulse repetition rate scaling of a small-scale (50 W) kinetically enhanced copper vapour laser (KE-CVL)
Author :
Marshall, G.D. ; Coutts, David W.
Author_Institution :
Clarendon Lab., Oxford Univ., UK
Abstract :
Summary form only given. Kinetic enhancement of elemental copper vapour lasers by the addition of small partial pressures of hydrogen halides to the Ne:H/sub 2/ buffer gas has been reported by Withford et al. Such enhancement has been shown to dramatically increase the raw output power (up to 100% increase) and greatly improve the beam quality of elemental copper vapour lasers. To date this new class of Cu vapour lasers (KE-CVLs) have been operated only at pulse repetition rates up to 30 kHz. In this paper we report pulse repetition frequency (PRF) scaling of an efficient high power small-scale KE-CVL.
Keywords :
copper; gas lasers; reaction kinetics; 50 W; Cu; Cu vapour lasers; Ne-He/sub 2/; Ne:H/sub 2/ buffer gas; efficient high power small-scale KE-CVL; elemental copper vapour lasers; hydrogen halides; kinetic enhancement; pulse repetition frequency scaling; pulse repetition rate scaling; pulse repetition rates; raw output power; small partial pressures; small-scale 50 W kinetically enhanced copper vapour laser; Copper; Frequency; Gas lasers; Hydrogen; Kinetic theory; Laser beams; Optical pulses; Power generation; Power lasers; Pulsed laser deposition;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1999. CLEO '99. Summaries of Papers Presented at the Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD, USA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-595-1
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.1999.834360
