Efficient electric-discharge XeF laser pumped by a generator with an inductive energy storage

Journal Article · Wed May 31 00:00:00 EDT 2006 · Quantum Electronics (Woodbury, N.Y.)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1070/QE2006V036N05ABEH013239· OSTI ID:21459994

Panchenko, Aleksei N; Tarasenko, Viktor F; Tel'minov, A E ^[1]

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1. Institute of High Current Electronics, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Tomsk (Russian Federation)

The parameters of discharge and laser radiation in an Ne-Xe-NF{sub 3} mixture excited by a double discharge from a generator with an inductive energy storage and a current interrupter based on semiconductor SOS diodes are studied. It is shown that a high-voltage prepulse formed by a generator with inductive energy storage increases considerably the stability and duration of volume discharge in mixtures with NF{sub 3}, and also increases the emission energy and pulse duration of laser radiation at the B-X transition of XeF{sup *} molecules. In the case of spark preionisation, radiation pulses with a total duration of up to 200 ns and the full width at half-maximum up to 100 ns are obtained. The maximum output energy of an XeF laser ({lambda} = 348, 351 and 353 nm) was 0.5 J for the electric efficiency up to 1.6%. (lasers)

• OSTI ID: 21459994
• Journal Information: Quantum Electronics (Woodbury, N.Y.), Vol. 36, Issue 5; Other Information: DOI: 10.1070/QE2006v036n05ABEH013239; ISSN 1063-7818
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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