Title :
Continuous wave 16 µm CF4laser
Author_Institution :
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA
fDate :
10/1/1983 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
A 16 μm CF4laser oscillator has operated continuous wave in a cooled static cell. Pump powers required from the low-pressure continuous wave CO2laser were approximately 3 W. The laser cavity was a multiple-pass off-axis-path two-mirror ring resonator. Unidirectional CF4laser power at 615 cm-1exceeded 2 mW. Rate equations were used to estimate scaling of this laser source. For modest pump powers (40 W) approximately 1 W of emission power is predicted from this small and simple system.
Keywords :
CW lasers; Carbon materials/devices; Gas lasers; Infrared lasers; Chemical lasers; Laser mode locking; Laser modes; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Optimized production technology; Pump lasers; Ring lasers; Spectroscopy; Ultrafast optics;
Journal_Title :
Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of
DOI :
10.1109/JQE.1983.1071748
