| Autor: |
Knecht, B. A., Mikheev, L. D., Eden, J. G., Zuev, V. S., Fraser, R. D., Wheeler, D. J., Zietkiewicz, C. J. |
| Zdroj: |
Optics Letters; May 1995, Vol. 20 Issue: 9 p1011-1013, 3p |
| Abstrakt: |
A compact surface-discharge laser system has been developed and applied to optically pumping the bound ? free XeF (C ? A) transition that lases in the blue-green (475–490-nm) and the ^2P_1/2 ? ^2P_3/2 transition of atomic iodine at 1.315 μm. Employing no high voltage or current switches and occupying only ~1 m^2 of table space, this device has an active length of ~50 cm and at present dissipates >8 MW/cm of surface discharge for a stored energy of 2.5 kJ. With 5% output coupling at 485 nm, energies of >50 mJ are obtained on the XeF (C ? A) transition in 1.5-μs (FWHM) pulses. The spectrum of the untuned oscillator is virtually free of absorption features and has a width of ~15 nm (FWHM). Pulse energies exceeding 0.7 J have been obtained for iodine at 1.3 μm with an output coupling of only 10%. |
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