Results of investigations of overtone supersonic cw chemical HF lasers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3574, Issue , 1998, Pages 355-360

  Fedorov, I A ^a   Konkin, S V ^a   Rebone, V K ^a   Rotinyan, M A ^a   Maksimov, Yu P ^b   Belyaev, A A ^b   Danilov, Oleg B ^c   Zhevlakov, Aleksandr P ^c  

^a Prikladnaya Khimiya Russian Scientific Center   (Russian Federation)

^b VpG1uso Energomash Research and Industrial Assosiation Khimki   (Russian Federation)

^c VAVILOV STATE OPTICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

overtone; regenerative amplifier; ring conjugate resonator; wavelength discriminating mirrors

Indexed keywords

FLOW OF GASES; MIRRORS; RESONATORS;

ACTIVE MEDIUM; HF LASERS; OVERTONE; POWER DENSITIES; POWER LASERS; REGENERATIVE AMPLIFIER; SMALL GAIN;

CHEMICAL LASERS;

EID: 19644369462     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.334456     Document Type: Conference Paper

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