Design engineerign of large high-pressure gas laser amplifiers

Conference · Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1978

OSTI ID:6854276

Leland, W T

The creation of a population inversion in large-volume high-pressure gas via an electrical discharge poses numerous engineering problems, not only concerning details of various components, but also in overall system performance or optimization. The Laser Division at Los Alamos has developed a base of engineering data and computational techniques which addresses the engineering design problems for our short-pulse, large, high-pressure CO/sub 2/ amplifiers. The various aspects of the problem considered individually and in total are described.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-36
• OSTI ID: 6854276
• Report Number(s): LA-UR-78-876; CONF-780324-3; TRN: 78-013620
• Resource Relation: Conference: SPIE '78 seminars, Washington, DC, USA, 28 Mar 1978
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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