Super-Gaussian reflectivity unstable resonator for excimer lasers
- 2 September 1991
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 59 (10) , 1153-1155
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.106391
Abstract
High-mode-volume, good optical quality laser beams of 55 mJ, of 19 ns duration and with a brightness of 3×1013 W cm−2 Sr−1, have been extracted from a high-gain, short-pulse XeCl laser, with an unstable resonator using a super-Gaussian reflectivity mirror. The misalignment angle of the output coupler to decrease the normalized output energy by 20% was 3.5 mrad.Keywords
This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
- High brightness operation of a XeCl laser with negative branch unstable resonatorsOptical and Quantum Electronics, 1991
- Lasers with super-Gaussian mirrorsIEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, 1990
- Experimental characterization of a self-filtering unstable resonator applied to a short pulse XeCl laserApplied Optics, 1989
- Solid-state laser unstable resonators with tapered reflectivity mirrors: the super-Gaussian approachIEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, 1988
- Fabrication and characterization of tuned Gaussian mirrors for the visible and the near infraredOptics Letters, 1988
- Effects of hard apertures on mode properties of resonators with gaussian reflectivity mirrorsIEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, 1987
- Stimulated Raman scattering in H_2–Ar mixturesOptics Letters, 1987
- Large-size Gaussian mode in unstable resonators using Gaussian mirrorsOptics Letters, 1985
- Use of unstable resonators in achieving the diffraction divergence of the radiation emitted from high-gain pulsed gas lasersSoviet Journal of Quantum Electronics, 1974
- Improved mode properties of unstable resonators with tapered reflectivity mirrors and shaped aperturesIEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, 1974