Pulsed chemical laser with variable pulse-length electron-beam initiation and magnetic confinement
- 1 January 1982
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 40 (1) , 20-22
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.92919
Abstract
Performance of a pulsed HF/DF chain laser was investigated for the case of transverse initiation by a magnetically confined electron beam. Laser energy and beam quality are presented as functions of electron gun, magnetic field, gas mixture, and optical resonator parameters. The results include 79-J/l HF output and electrical efficiency for conversion of total incident e-beam energy to laser output energy of 45%.Keywords
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