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10 November 2003 Power deposition characteristics of a 40-MHz RF-excited slab CO2 laser
Yoshio Ishii, Kazuhiro Watanabe
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Proceedings Volume 5120, XIV International Symposium on Gas Flow, Chemical Lasers, and High-Power Lasers; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.515468
Event: XIV International Symposium on Gas Flow, Chemical Lasers, and High-Power Lasers, 2002, Wroclow, Poland
Abstract
In this study, power deposition characteristics of the 40MHz slab excitation carbon dioxide laser has been carefully investigated in which the relationship between the filled gas pressures and input power densities have been obtained so as to sustain stable α discharges. As a result, a laser output power of 60-90W was obtained with a corresponding conversion efficiency as high as 9.5-10% under the condition of 0.6 -1 kW discharge input into Xe-added 1:1:8 Helium-rich gas filling which corresponds to 22-37 W/cc of the input power density. The obtained characteristics in this work shows that relatively high conversion efficiency can be realized with stable α discharge by choosing the optimum operational gas pressures and power input densities under the use of the Xe(2.5%)-added, Helium-rich gas mixture(1:1:8).
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Yoshio Ishii and Kazuhiro Watanabe "Power deposition characteristics of a 40-MHz RF-excited slab CO2 laser", Proc. SPIE 5120, XIV International Symposium on Gas Flow, Chemical Lasers, and High-Power Lasers, (10 November 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.515468
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KEYWORDS
Xenon

Carbon dioxide lasers

Power supplies

Electrodes

Laser systems engineering

Plasma

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