CF4 and NOCl molecular lasers operating in the 16-μm region
- 15 April 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 30 (8) , 420-422
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.89427
Abstract
We have obtained stimulated emission in the 16‐μm egion from CF4 and NOCl with an optical pumping scheme which uses a single CO2 TEA laser as the excitation source. Measured laser energies from CF4 and NOCl are 4 and 3 mJ, respectively, which represents an order‐of‐magnitude improvement over exisiting molecular lasers oscillating in this region. There appear to be no fundamental limitations to scaling these lasers to energies ⩾1 J. These lasers offer considerable promise for the laser isotope separation of uranium.Keywords
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