Laser plasma isolator for a retropulse in a CO2 laser amplifier chain
- 15 November 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 33 (10) , 870-871
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.90195
Abstract
A laser plasma isolator was developed to attenuate a retropulse in a high‐power CO2 laser system. An attenuation ratio of 1/20 of a main laser beam (∼1‐J 3‐nsec pulse‐width FWHM) was obtained by blowing off a carbon plasma induced by a plasma production laser beam (∼0.5‐J 3‐nsec pulse‐width FWHM) onto the waist of the main laser beam.Keywords
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