Improvement of the performance of cw CO lasers by using externally ribbed wall cooled discharge tubes
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1432-0649
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PACS: 42.55E; 42.60B; 52
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Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
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Physics
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Abstract. We describe a modified design of a continuous-flow cw CO laser with longitudinal electric discharge using an externally ribbed wall cooled discharge tube. The transverse ribbed discharge tube provides a more intense heat exchange of the CO-laser gas with the walls. With this configuration it was possible to obtain about 50% more output power from an all-line CO Δv=1 laser. For a CO-overtone Δv=2 laser we were able to improve both the output power and the number of lines as compared to a conventional smooth tube.
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Electronic Resource
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