Injection control of a long-pulse electron-beam pumped XeF( C r arrow ital A ) laser

Journal Article · Thu Nov 01 04:00:00 EST 1990 · IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); (USA)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1109/3.62116· OSTI ID:5937182

Mandl, A; Litzenberger, L N ^[1]

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1. Anco Research Lab., Inc., Everett, MA (US)

An XeF(C {r arrow} A) laser, pumped at a rate of 290 kW/cm{sup 3} with a 600 ns electron-beam pulse, has been operated as an injection-controlled oscillator. A stable cavity has been injected with radiation from a pulsed dye laser source. A significant reduction in laser turn-on time has been achieved, and the laser pulse duration has been extended to 500 ns (FWHM). As a consequence, the laser intrinsic efficiency and specific output energy have been increased by approximately 50%, to 1.8% and 3 J/L, respectively, which represent the best performance obtained thus far for any directly electrically-excited XeF(C {r arrow} A) laser. Also, by injecting a narrowband signal into the cavity, the XeF(C {r arrow} A) laser linewidth has been reduced by more than two orders of magnitude, to less than 1.3 {Angstrom}, the resolution of the spectrometer. The laser wavelength has been tuned from 478.6 to 486.8 nm, with less than a factor of two variation in output energy.

• OSTI ID: 5937182
• Journal Information: IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); (USA), Journal Name: IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); (USA) Vol. 26:11; ISSN 0018-9197; ISSN IEJQA
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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42 ENGINEERING
426002* -- Engineering-- Lasers & Masers-- (1990-)
DYE LASERS
EFFICIENCY
ELECTRICAL PUMPING
ELECTRON BEAM PUMPING
EXCIMER LASERS
FLUORIDES
FLUORINE COMPOUNDS
GAS LASERS
HALIDES
HALOGEN COMPOUNDS
LASERS
LINE WIDTHS
LIQUID LASERS
OPERATION
PERFORMANCE
PULSES
PUMPING
RARE GAS COMPOUNDS
TUNING
XENON COMPOUNDS
XENON FLUORIDES