Unstable Resonator Studies For A 1-Joule Per Pulse KrF Avalanche Discharge Laser

Samuel Reading; Robert C. Sze; Charles Tallman; Russell Wallace; Charles Warner

doi:10.1117/12.957762

13 November 1980 Unstable Resonator Studies For A 1-Joule Per Pulse KrF Avalanche Discharge Laser

Samuel Reading, Robert C. Sze, Charles Tallman, Russell Wallace, Charles Warner

Proceedings Volume 0190, Los Alamos Conference on Optics 1979; (1980) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.957762
Event: Los Alamos Conference on Optics '79, 1979, Los Alamos, United States

Abstract

Experiments on output beam divergence for a 1-Joule KrF laser with M = 4 and M = 10 unstable resonators for 112.5 cm, 187.5 cm and 225 cm separation are presented. Results gave beam divergence no better than some 30 times diffraction limited in the best case.

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Samuel Reading, Robert C. Sze, Charles Tallman, Russell Wallace, and Charles Warner "Unstable Resonator Studies For A 1-Joule Per Pulse KrF Avalanche Discharge Laser", Proc. SPIE 0190, Los Alamos Conference on Optics 1979, (13 November 1980); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.957762

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