Repetition rate scaling up to 100 kHz of a small-scale (50 W) kinetically enhanced copper vapor laser

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 623-628

  Marshall, Graham D ^a   Coutts, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCIES; HIGH POWER LASERS; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; LASER PRODUCED PLASMAS; LASER PULSES; LASER TUNING; THYRATRONS;

COPPER VAPOR LASERS; PULSE POWER SYSTEMS; PULSE REPETITION FREQUENCY;

GAS LASERS;

EID: 0034217356     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2944.883376     Document Type: Article

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