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5 November 2018 Control of laser pulse waveform in longitudinally excited CO2 laser by adjustment of gas medium
Kazuyuki Uno, Takahisa Jitsuno
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Proceedings Volume 10811, High-Power Lasers and Applications IX; 1081111 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2500559
Event: SPIE/COS Photonics Asia, 2018, Beijing, China
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In a longitudinally excited CO2 laser that had a 45 cm-long discharge tube and a fast discharge circuit, we investigated control of the laser pulse waveform by adjusting the gas medium. In a longitudinal discharge at a low pressure of 10 kPa or less, the laser pulse waveform dramatically changed with the gas pressure and the mixing ratio due to the changing discharge formation time, which varied from 57 ns to 262 μs. A low-pressure (<2 kPa) CO2-rich gas produced a tail-free short laser pulse with a width of about 100 ns. A high-pressure (<2 kPa) CO2-rich gas and a low-pressure (<6 kPa) N2- rich gas produced a short laser pulse containing a spike pulse with a width of about 100 ns and a pulse tail with a length of 10−200 μs. A high-pressure (<6 kPa) N2-rich gas produced a long laser pulse with a pulse width of 10−20 μs. Therefore, the laser pulse waveform of the longitudinally excited CO2 laser could be controlled.
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Kazuyuki Uno and Takahisa Jitsuno "Control of laser pulse waveform in longitudinally excited CO2 laser by adjustment of gas medium", Proc. SPIE 10811, High-Power Lasers and Applications IX, 1081111 (5 November 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2500559
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Pulsed laser operation
Gas lasers
Carbon dioxide lasers
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