Characteristics of a TEA-CO/sub 2/ laser oscillation by an inductive energy storage pulsed power system

Author

Ihara, S. ; Kamatani, M. ; Satoh, S. ; Yamabe, C. ; Akiyama, H.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Saga Univ., Japan

Volume

2

fYear

1995

fDate

3-6 July 1995

Firstpage

951

Abstract

A pulsed-power technology is used to develop a gas laser system. Blumlein generators, magnetic compression and capacitor-transfer type circuits, can be applicable as such power supplies. However, inductive energy storage pulsed-power generators can probably realize more lightweight, compact and high-power laser systems. Experiments of TEA-CO/sub 2/ laser oscillation were carried out using an inductive energy storage pulsed-power generator and an efficiency of laser oscillation of 3.9% was obtained and this was compared with the capacitor-transfer type method.

Keywords

carbon compounds; gas lasers; inductive energy storage; laser accessories; power supplies to apparatus; pulse generators; pulsed power technology; 3.9 percent; CO/sub 2/; TEA-CO/sub 2/ laser oscillation characteristics; gas laser system; inductive energy storage; laser oscillation efficiency; pulsed power system; Electrodes; Energy storage; Fuses; Gas lasers; Laser fusion; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Power lasers; Pulsed power supplies; Switches;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Pulsed Power Conference, 1995. Digest of Technical Papers., Tenth IEEE International

Conference_Location

Albuquerque, NM, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2791-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PPC.1995.599735

Filename

599735