Title :
New power scaling laws for copper vapour lasers
Author :
Mildren, R.P. ; Withford, Michael J. ; Piper, J.A.
Author_Institution :
Centre for Lasers & Applications, Macquarie Univ., Sydney, NSW, Australia
Abstract :
This paper deals with kinetically enhanced copper vapour lasers (KE-CVL) performance at elevated specific input powers by investigating three laser tubes of decreasing internal diameter for constant input power (7-9 kW).To enable direct observation of the effects of increased specific input power, the three laser tubes were investigated with other parameters held essentially constant viz. the end-housings, gas handling system, resonator optics and excitation circuit. The highest output power of 104 W was obtained for the largest tube investigated, which was 32 mm×1m long.
Keywords :
copper; gas lasers; laser variables measurement; power measurement; 1 m; 104 W; 32 mm; 7 to 9 kW; Cu; copper vapour lasers; end-housings; excitation circuit; gas handling system; kinetic enhancement; laser tubes; power scaling laws; resonator optics; Apertures; Boring; Chemical lasers; Copper; Electron tubes; Gas lasers; Optical resonators; Power generation; Power lasers; Volume relaxation;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe, 2003. CLEO/Europe. 2003 Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7734-6
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOE.2003.1312154
