• DocumentCode
    3151843
  • Title

    High beam quality generation from compact kinetically-enhanced copper vapour lasers of high-average-power (100 W) and high-pulse-rate (30 KHz)

  • Author

    Mildren, R.P. ; Piper, J.A.

  • Author_Institution
    Centre for Lasers & Applications, Macquarie Univ., North Ryde, NSW, Australia
  • fYear
    2003
  • fDate
    22-27 June 2003
  • Firstpage
    119
  • Abstract
    In this paper, we have studied the high beam quality generation from compact kinetically-enhanced copper vapour lasers (KE-CVLs). We have found that the output powers of small-scale KE-CVLs (15-25 mm ID) are nominally 90-100 W at pulse repetition rates 20-30 kHz and efficiencies >1.0%.
  • Keywords
    copper; gas lasers; gas-discharge tubes; laser beams; optical pulse generation; 15 to 25 mm; 90 to 100 W; Cu; compact kinetically-enhanced copper vapour lasers; high beam quality generation; pulse repetition rates; Additives; Copper; Diffraction; Electron tubes; Gas lasers; Kinetic theory; Laser beams; Power generation; Power lasers; Pulse amplifiers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe, 2003. CLEO/Europe. 2003 Conference on
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-7734-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEOE.2003.1312180
  • Filename
    1312180