Measured laser parameters for reactor-pumped He/Ar/Xe and Ar/Xe lasers
- 15 May 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 65 (10) , 3760-3766
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.343386
Abstract
We have measured laser parameters for reactor pumping of He/Ar/Xe gas mixtures lasing predominantly at 2.03 μm and Ar/Xe mixtures lasing predominantly at 1.73 μm. Gains as high as ∼3%/cm have been measured in He/Ar/Xe at pump powers of ∼200 W/cm3 . Both systems exhibit small distributed losses. Intrinsic laser energy efficiencies as high as 2.4% (3.0%) have been observed for He/Ar/Xe (Ar/Xe). These efficiencies are the highest reported for reactor‐pumped lasers.This publication has 23 references indexed in Scilit:
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