High-efficiency operation of a gas discharge XeCl laser using a magnetically induced resonant voltage overshoot circuit
- 1 April 1990
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 67 (7) , 3517-3519
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.345343
Abstract
An electrical to optical efficiency of 5% has been demonstrated in an x-ray preionized XeCl discharge laser using an improved prepulse-mainpulse circuit, based on resonant charging of the peaking capacitor. In contrast to known prepulse-mainpulse circuits, the new scheme has no time delay between prepulse and mainpulse nor a voltage reversal on the electrodes. We present three possible configurations of the scheme and one of them has been realized for demonstrating its high-efficiency capabilities.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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