Summary form only given. Kinetic enhancement of elemental copper vapour lasers by the addition of small partial pressures of hydrogen halides to the Ne:H/sub 2/ buffer gas has been reported by Withford et al. Such enhancement has been shown to dramatically increase the raw output power (up to 100% increase) and greatly improve the beam quality of elemental copper vapour lasers. To date this new class of Cu vapour lasers (KE-CVLs) have been operated only at pulse repetition rates up to 30 kHz. In this paper we report pulse repetition frequency (PRF) scaling of an efficient high power small-scale KE-CVL.


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    Title :

    Pulse repetition rate scaling of a small-scale (50 W) kinetically enhanced copper vapour laser (KE-CVL)


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    Publication date :

    1999-01-01


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    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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