Active medium gain study of electric-discharge oxygen-iodine laser

Yuriy Kolobyanin; Yuriy Adamenkov; Boris Vyskubenko; Leonid Goryachev; Sergey Ilyin; Anatoliy Kalashnik; Tatiana Rakhimova; Georgiy Rogozhnikov

doi:10.1117/12.739082

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26 April 2007 Active medium gain study of electric-discharge oxygen-iodine laser

Yuriy Kolobyanin, Yuriy Adamenkov, Boris Vyskubenko, Leonid Goryachev, Sergey Ilyin, Anatoliy Kalashnik, Tatiana Rakhimova, Georgiy Rogozhnikov

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Proceedings Volume 6346, XVI International Symposium on Gas Flow, Chemical Lasers, and High-Power Lasers; 63462E (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.739082
Event: XVI International Symposium on Gas Flow, Chemical Lasers, and High-Power Lasers, 2006, Gmunden, Austria

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The paper reports on experimental studies of the active medium gain in supersonic electric-discharge oxygen-iodine laser (DOIL) based on traveling mw discharge. The measurements have included: absolute concentration, yield, and energy efficiency of production of SO in pure oxygen and oxygen-helium mixes at an oxygen partial pressure 3 to 15 Torr. For the gas flow to get rid of atomic oxygen, both heterogeneous mercury oxide coatings of the tube walls and homogeneous additives to the work mix, such as nitrogen oxide, have been used. The active medium of DOIL was formed using a nozzle array of the type of ejector sized as 10*50 mm². The singlet oxygen-helium mix was supplied through three rows of sonic cylindrical nozzles, while the iodine-carrier gas mix - through two rows of supersonic conical nozzles with a half-opening angle of 10°(arc). The gas-phase iodine was produced in a quartz cell filled with iodine crystals. Room-temperature iodine vapors were picked up with a carrier gas (nitrogen or helium) and thus delivered into the nozzle array. The active medium was investigated by the high-resolution laser diode spectroscopy approach that used the laser type Vortex 6025 purchased from New Focus, Inc. The laser medium gain factor was determined by the intra-cavity approach having a sensitivity about 1*10^-6 cm^-1. The static temperature of the medium was determined from the measurements of gain half-width. The gain of the active medium of electric-discharge OIL has been investigated. The DOIL in use was operating on a mix composed as O₂:He=1:1 at a total pressure of 6 Torr and flowrate - about 1 mmol/s. With helium as an iodine carrier gas at a flowrate ~3 mmol/s, we have recorded a positive gain in the DOIL medium.

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Yuriy Kolobyanin, Yuriy Adamenkov, Boris Vyskubenko, Leonid Goryachev, Sergey Ilyin, Anatoliy Kalashnik, Tatiana Rakhimova, and Georgiy Rogozhnikov "Active medium gain study of electric-discharge oxygen-iodine laser", Proc. SPIE 6346, XVI International Symposium on Gas Flow, Chemical Lasers, and High-Power Lasers, 63462E (26 April 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.739082

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