Design considerations and scaling laws for high power convective cooled CW CO2 lasers

Pramana - Journal of Physics

Volumn 51, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 463-479

  Nath, A K ^b   Golubev, V S ^a  

^a Sci Res Ctr for Technol Lasers   (Russian Federation)

^b RAJA RAMANNA CENTRE FOR ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

CO2 laser; Convective cooled; Design criteria; Scaling laws

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; COOLING; HEAT CONVECTION; HIGH POWER LASERS; LASER BEAMS; OPTICAL RESONATORS;

CONVECTIVE COOLING; SCALING LAWS; TRANSMISSIVITY;

CARBON DIOXIDE LASERS;

EID: 0032157436     PISSN: 03044289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02828939     Document Type: Article

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