Title : 
High-power Ar-N2transfer laser at 3577 Å
         
        
            Author : 
Ault, E.R. ; Bhaumik, M.L. ; Olson, N. Thomas
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Northrop Research and Technology Center, Hawthorne, CA, USA
         
        
        
        
        
            fDate : 
8/1/1974 12:00:00 AM
         
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
A peak laser power of 0.5 MW with an estimated efficiency of 0.2 percent has been obtained at 3577 Å from a mixture of 92 psia Ar and 8 psia N
2which was excited by an 

 -beam of 400 A/cm
2at 1.3 MeV in a 20-ns pulse. A saturation intensity of ∼100 kW/cm
2was deduced and a beam divergence of 10 mrad was measured from the laser having a 10-cm gain length.
 
         
        
            Keywords : 
Argon; Current density; Electron optics; Gas lasers; Laser beams; Laser excitation; Optical pulses; Optical scattering; Power lasers; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers;
         
        
        
            Journal_Title : 
Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of
         
        
        
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/JQE.1974.1068212