Laser and Particle Beams

Table of Contents - 2005 - Volume 23, Issue 04  


The development of a joule level of XeF(C-A) laser by optical pumping

LI  YU  a1 c1 , JING-RU  LIU  a1 , LIAN-YING  MA  a1 , AI-PING  YI  a1 , CHAO  HUANG  a1 , XIAO-XIA  AN  a1 , YONG-SHENG  ZHANG  a1 , JIAN-CANG  SU  a1 and ZHENG-ZHONG  ZENG  a1
a1 Northwest Institute of Nuclear Technology, Xi'an, China

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Abstract

A joule level of XeF(C-A) laser optically pumped by a sectioned surface discharge was developed. The irradiative intensity of pumping source was diagnosed by calculating XeF2 photo-dissociation wave evolvement which was photographed by a framing camera. The photon flux in the wavelength region of 140 to 170nm is about 5 × 1023 photon s−1cm−2, that corresponds to the irradiative brightness temperature of more than 25000 K. The laser experiments were carried out in different conditions. The maximum laser output energy of 2.5 J was obtained with the total conversion efficiency of 0.1%.

(Received April 7 2005)
(Accepted May 31 2005)


Key Words: Optical pumping; Photo-dissociation; XeF(C-A) laser.

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c1 Address correspondence and reprint requests to: Li Yu, Northwest Institute of Nuclear Technology, P. O. Box 69-26, Xi'an 710024, People's Republic of China. E-mail: yuli057@vip.163.com

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