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Longitudinal mode rejection in TEA-CO2 oscillators
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In this paper, a short-cavity single-longitudinal mode mini TEA-CO 2 laser is described and an experimental study of the effect of cavity length tuning on the mode intensity rejection is presented.About:
This article is published in Optics Communications.The article was published on 1979-07-01. It has received 9 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Longitudinal mode & Lasing threshold.read more
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Spectral control of gain-switched lasers by injection seeding: application to TEA CO2 systems
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Miniature 250 Hz, TEA CO2 laser using H2 buffered gas mixture
TL;DR: In this paper, the design and performance of a miniature 250 Hz, TEA CO2 laser using H2 buffered mixtures is described and a 6 W average power has been obtained from a 103 mm3 discharge volume.
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A compact wide-aperture single-mode TE-CO 2 laser with a low chirp rate
TL;DR: In this article, a TE-CO 2 laser was obtained using a 2 \times 2 /times 30 cm gain module in a Cassegrain resonator with a Gaussian reflectivity convex mirror.
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Design of a compact high PRF TEA CO2 laser and performance under multimode and single mode conditions
TL;DR: In this article, the design and performance characteristics of a compact TEA CO2 laser operating a PRFS
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Scaling laws for the mode purity of simple TEA CO2 lasers
R C Hollins,D L Jordan +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a model is presented to describe scaling of the transverse and longitudinal mode purity of the gain-switched output of a TEA CO2 laser. But the model does not consider the finite-grain build-up time.
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Broadening coefficients for the P(20) CO2 laser transition
TL;DR: In this article, the absorption line shape is represented by a Voigt line shape and the measured broadening coefficients are γCO2=7.61±0.10, γN2=5.58± 0.20, and γHe=4.88 ± 0.18 MHz/Torr, all measured at 298°K.
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Injection locking and mode selection in TEA-CO 2 laser oscillators
TL;DR: In this article, a dynamic model was proposed to describe the transient evolution of the different field amplitudes and phases together with their effect on the inversion of a TEA-CO 2 laser.
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Single Longitudinal Mode Operation of High Pressure Pulsed CO_sub.2 Lasers
TL;DR: In this paper, a new method of obtaining high power single frequency output is described, where pulses are built up from the single mode radiation in the cavity of a hybrid laser having both low pressure continuous and high pressure continuous, high pressure pulsed gain sections.
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Single‐mode operation and mode locking of high‐pressure co2 lasers by means of saturable absorbers
TL;DR: In this paper, a single-longitudinal mode operation of pulsed, high-pressure, transversely excited CO2 laser has been obtained by means of a saturable absorber (SF6) cell placed inside the laser cavity.
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