Copper bromide laser of 120-W average output power

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 705-709

  Astadjov, Dimo N ^a,c,d,e   Dimitrov, Krasimir D ^a,c   Jones, David R ^b   Kirkov, Valentin K ^a,f,g   Little, Chris E ^b,h,i   Sabotinov, Nikola V ^a   Vuchkov, Nikolay K ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF SOLID STATE PHYSICS   (Bulgaria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

^d BULGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Bulgaria)

^e Bulgarian Physical Society   (Bulgaria)

^f TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

^g Institute of Optics   (Bulgaria)

^h MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

ⁱ OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA   (United States)

Author keywords

Gas lasers; Pulsed lasers

Indexed keywords

COPPER COMPOUNDS; GAS LASERS; LASER PULSES;

AVERAGE OUTPUT POWER; PULSE RECURRENCY FREQUENCY (PRF);

HIGH POWER LASERS;

EID: 0031140159     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.572143     Document Type: Article

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