Design And Construction Of A Short Pulse Front End For A Large CO2 Laser

C. W. Woods; R. F. Alexander; C. R. Collins

doi:10.1117/12.932040

30 December 1981 Design And Construction Of A Short Pulse Front End For A Large CO2 Laser

C. W. Woods, R. F. Alexander, C. R. Collins

Proceedings Volume 0288, Los Alamos Conf on Optics '81; (1981) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.932040
Event: Los Alamos Conference on Optics, 1981, Los Alamos, United States

Abstract

A CO2 laser oscillator, switch out, and preamplifier system which produces 1 ns pulses of 10.6 μm light with an energy of about 1 joule was designed and constructed. Commercial CO2 TEA devices were used throughout. Alignment was simplified by using a single He-Ne laser and penta prism reflectors on kinematic mounts. Performance of this system as compared with calculations with the Laser Optical Train Simulation (LOTS) program will be discussed.

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C. W. Woods, R. F. Alexander, and C. R. Collins "Design And Construction Of A Short Pulse Front End For A Large CO2 Laser", Proc. SPIE 0288, Los Alamos Conf on Optics '81, (30 December 1981); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.932040

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