Performance of a high-efficiency 5-cm gain length supersonic chemical oxygen-iodine laser

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 857-866

  Rittenhouse, Tilghman L ^a   Phipps, Stephen P ^a   Helms, Charles A ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAS LASERS; HEURISTIC METHODS; IODINE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OXYGEN;

SUPERSONIC CHEMICAL OXYGEN-IODINE LASERS (COIL);

CHEMICAL LASERS;

EID: 0032632236     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.766828     Document Type: Article

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