Abstract
Scientific and industrial applications of UV discharge excimer lasers have stimulated considerable interest in developing high average and peak power laser systems. Although one joule per pulse, hundred watt excimer laser devices can be found on the market, there is still a demand for further scaling the discharge systems to larger sizes, since some potential applications, such as large area material processing, X-ray production, short pulse amplification and so on, require higher average power multi-joule per pulse laser output. This paper first discusses some discharge system scaling problems, and then, presents some experimental results, which were obtained with a 10 liter (10 x 10 x 100 cm) active volume, X-ray preionized discharge pumped XeCI laser system. For example, it was found that it is essential to use a very short, intense X-rays as an ionizing source in order to have an efficient preionization result, and that by improving the uniformity of both the electric field and the preionization intensity distribution in the electrode gap, and further compressing the X-ray pulse duration, much more laser energy may be obtained.
Citation Formats
Letardi, T, Bollanti, S, Di Lazzaro, P, Flora, F, Lisi, N, and Zheng, C E.
Some design limitations for large aperture high energy per pulse excimer lasers.
Italy: N. p.,
1992.
Web.
Letardi, T, Bollanti, S, Di Lazzaro, P, Flora, F, Lisi, N, & Zheng, C E.
Some design limitations for large aperture high energy per pulse excimer lasers.
Italy.
Letardi, T, Bollanti, S, Di Lazzaro, P, Flora, F, Lisi, N, and Zheng, C E.
1992.
"Some design limitations for large aperture high energy per pulse excimer lasers."
Italy.
@misc{etde_10128913,
title = {Some design limitations for large aperture high energy per pulse excimer lasers}
author = {Letardi, T, Bollanti, S, Di Lazzaro, P, Flora, F, Lisi, N, and Zheng, C E}
abstractNote = {Scientific and industrial applications of UV discharge excimer lasers have stimulated considerable interest in developing high average and peak power laser systems. Although one joule per pulse, hundred watt excimer laser devices can be found on the market, there is still a demand for further scaling the discharge systems to larger sizes, since some potential applications, such as large area material processing, X-ray production, short pulse amplification and so on, require higher average power multi-joule per pulse laser output. This paper first discusses some discharge system scaling problems, and then, presents some experimental results, which were obtained with a 10 liter (10 x 10 x 100 cm) active volume, X-ray preionized discharge pumped XeCI laser system. For example, it was found that it is essential to use a very short, intense X-rays as an ionizing source in order to have an efficient preionization result, and that by improving the uniformity of both the electric field and the preionization intensity distribution in the electrode gap, and further compressing the X-ray pulse duration, much more laser energy may be obtained.}
place = {Italy}
year = {1992}
month = {Dec}
}
title = {Some design limitations for large aperture high energy per pulse excimer lasers}
author = {Letardi, T, Bollanti, S, Di Lazzaro, P, Flora, F, Lisi, N, and Zheng, C E}
abstractNote = {Scientific and industrial applications of UV discharge excimer lasers have stimulated considerable interest in developing high average and peak power laser systems. Although one joule per pulse, hundred watt excimer laser devices can be found on the market, there is still a demand for further scaling the discharge systems to larger sizes, since some potential applications, such as large area material processing, X-ray production, short pulse amplification and so on, require higher average power multi-joule per pulse laser output. This paper first discusses some discharge system scaling problems, and then, presents some experimental results, which were obtained with a 10 liter (10 x 10 x 100 cm) active volume, X-ray preionized discharge pumped XeCI laser system. For example, it was found that it is essential to use a very short, intense X-rays as an ionizing source in order to have an efficient preionization result, and that by improving the uniformity of both the electric field and the preionization intensity distribution in the electrode gap, and further compressing the X-ray pulse duration, much more laser energy may be obtained.}
place = {Italy}
year = {1992}
month = {Dec}
}