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Title: Design and construction of a short-pulse front end for a large CO/sub 2/ laser

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OSTI ID:6507003

A CO/sub 2/ laser oscillator, switch out, and preamplifier system which produces 1 ns pulses of 10.6 ..mu..m light with an energy of about 1 joule was designed and constructed. Commercial CO/sub 2/ TEA devices were used throughout. Alignment was simplified by using a single He-Ne laser and penta prism reflectors on kinematic mounts. Performance of this system as compared with calculations with the Laser Optical Train simulation (LOTS) program is discussed.

Research Organization:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
W-7405-ENG-36
OSTI ID:
6507003
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-81-1441; CONF-810429-31
Resource Relation:
Conference: Conference on optics, Santa Fe, NM, USA, 6 Apr 1981
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English