Intense superradiant emission at 496 μm from optically pumped methyl fluoride

15 June 1973

journal article
research article
Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters

Vol. 22 (12) , 644-646
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1654539

Abstract

Intense superradiant emission has been observed from methyl fluoride excited by 0.6‐MW pulses from a high‐pressure CO2 laser. Pulses of ∼ 1 kW with a duration of ∼ 150 nsec have been obtained from a 5‐m‐long 40‐mm‐diam cell containing 0.7 Torr of methyl fluoride. This output represents an efficiency of converting infrared photons to far‐infrared photons of ∼ 5%. Evidence for partial waveguiding in the cell and for phase‐coherent amplification are presented.

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