Title : 
Guiding of a high-intensity CO/sub 2/ laser pulse in a hollow waveguide
         
        
            Author : 
Tochitsky, S.Ya. ; Sung, C. ; Joshi, C.
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dept. of Electr. Eng., UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
A 100 GW CO2 laser pulse with a duration of ~200 ps was guided in a 2-cm long stainless steel waveguide. Transmission was studied both for gas-filled and evacuated waveguides at intensities around 5 times 1014 W/cm2
         
        
            Keywords : 
carbon compounds; gas lasers; high-speed optical techniques; optical waveguides; 100 GW; 2 cm; 200 ps; CO2; CO2 laser pulse; FeCCr; evacuated waveguides; gas-filled waveguides; high-intensity laser pulse; hollow waveguide; laser pulse guiding; stainless steel waveguide; transmission;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Quantum Electronics Conference, 2004. (IQEC). International
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
San Francisco, CA
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
1-55752-778-4