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Optically pumped mid-ir lasers

Journal Article · · Laser Focus; (United States)
OSTI ID:6739674

Optical pumping of gas lasers by high-energy infrared lasers can provide coherent output across much of the mid-infrared spectrum. The principal advantage of such lasers is the high power that can be attained by pumping with such highpower sources as hydrogen-fluoride, deuterium-fluoride, carbon-monoxide, carbon-dioxide or hydrogen-bromide lasers. There are laser sources that produce continuously tunable output in this region, but they have found only limited applications. The higher power of optically pumped lasers makes them more suitable for photochemistry, photophysics and atmospheric monitoring.

Research Organization:
Los Alamos Scientific Lab., NM
OSTI ID:
6739674
Journal Information:
Laser Focus; (United States), Journal Name: Laser Focus; (United States) Vol. 14:8; ISSN LAFOA
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English