Solid-state laser-pumped high-power electric-discharge HF laser

Journal Article · Tue Aug 03 00:00:00 EDT 2010 · Quantum Electronics (Woodbury, N.Y.)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1070/QE2010V040N05ABEH014324· OSTI ID:21471351

Velikanov, S D; Garanin, Sergey G; Kodola, B E; Komarov, Yu N; Shchurov, V V ^[1]; Efanov, V M; Efanov, M V; Yarin, P M ^[2]; Kazantsev, S Yu; Kononov, I G; Firsov, K N ^[3]; Domazhirov, A P; Podlesnykh, S V; Sivachev, A A

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1. Russian Federal Nuclear Center - The All-Russian Research Institute of Experimental Physics, Sarov, Nizhnii Novgorod region (Russian Federation)
2. 'FID Technology' Research and Production Association, St.Petersburg (Russian Federation)
3. A M Prokhorov General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow (Russian Federation)

We report the possibility of creating high-power nonchain electric-discharge HF lasers with an all-solid-state pump source. The maximum energy stored in the pump source capacitors based on solid-state FID-switches is 990 J for the open-circuit voltage of 240 kV. The pulse energy of 30 J is obtained in the hydrogen-containing SF{sub 6} mixture at the electric efficiency of the order of 3%. (lasers)

• OSTI ID: 21471351
• Journal Information: Quantum Electronics (Woodbury, N.Y.), Vol. 40, Issue 5; Other Information: DOI: 10.1070/QE2010v040n05ABEH014324; ISSN 1063-7818
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
GENERAL PHYSICS
CAPACITORS
EFFICIENCY
ELECTRIC DISCHARGES
ELECTRIC POTENTIAL
ELECTRICAL PUMPING
HYDROFLUORIC ACID
HYDROGEN
PULSES
SOLID STATE LASERS
SULFUR FLUORIDES
SWITCHES
ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT
ELEMENTS
EQUIPMENT
FLUORIDES
FLUORINE COMPOUNDS
HALIDES
HALOGEN COMPOUNDS
HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS
INORGANIC ACIDS
INORGANIC COMPOUNDS
LASERS
NONMETALS
PUMPING
SULFUR COMPOUNDS