Laser and Particle Beams
- Laser and Particle Beams / Volume 9 / Issue 03 / September 1991, pp 659-673
- Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991
- DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0263034600003682 (About DOI), Published online: 09 March 2009
Research Article
A simple kinetic model for electron-beam-pumped KrF lasers
E. C. Harveya1* and M. J. Shawa1
a1 Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon 0X11 OQX United Kingdom
Abstract
A kinetic model for KrF is presented that, by neglecting all but the most important kinetic processes, adequately describes the performance of electron-beam-pumped KrF lasers by a few, simple analytical expressions. The expression for the saturation intensity as a function of pump rate and gas composition is checked by measurements of gain saturation in both argon-rich and krypton-rich laser mixtures. The effects of fluorine burn-up are considered and are shown to impose a fundamental relationship between output fluence and efficiency of KrF laser amplifiers.
(Received February 15 1990)
Footnotes
* Present address: Exitech Ltd., Hanborough Business Park, Long Hanborough, Oxford OX7 2LH, United Kingdom.
