Title :
An injection-locked unstable resonator rare-gas halide discharge laser of narrow linewidth and high spatial quality
Author :
Goldhar, Julius ; Rapoport, W.R. ; Murray, J.R.
Author_Institution :
Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, Livermore, CA, USA
fDate :
2/1/1980 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
An oscillator-amplifier KrF discharge laser system capable of providing up to 400 mJ output with 0.1-cm-1linewidth in a 20-ns pulse is described. The output beam divergence is described and shown to be affected by the discharge current. The output beam is near the diffraction limit in the direction parallel to the discharge and about three times the diffraction limit transverse to the discharge. Operation with XeCl at up to 250 mJ with similar linewidth and spatial quality is also described.
Keywords :
Noble-gas lasers; Pulsed lasers; Ultraviolet lasers; Capacitors; Diffraction; Fault location; Laser beams; Laser feedback; Laser modes; Optical design; Optical pulses; Pulse amplifiers; Pump lasers;
Journal_Title :
Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of
DOI :
10.1109/JQE.1980.1070457