Experimental Study of Positive and Negative Branch Unstable Resonators Applied to a XeCl Laser

1 January 1990

journal article
research article
Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Modern Optics

Vol. 37 (1) , 75-83
https://doi.org/10.1080/09500349014550071

Abstract

A positive and a negative branch confocal unstable resonator with magnification |M| = 10 and with an intracavity spatial filter have been applied to a high-gain short-pulse u.v. pre-ionized XeCl laser. The performance of both resonators has been investigated and compared.

Keywords

SPATIAL FILTERING

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