Modeling technique of capacitive discharge pumping of metal vapor lasers for electrode capacitance optimization.
To estimate optimum gas discharge tube (GDT) electrode capacitance of metal vapor lasers (MVLs) pumped by a longitudinal capacitive discharge, we offer to use series connection of capacitors to the electrodes of a conventionally pumped GDT with inner electrodes. It has been demonstrated that the maximum output power in CuBr lasers is obtained when the capacitances of high-voltage and ground electrodes are equal. When using a model circuit an average output power reaches 12 W that suggests the possibility of generating high average output power (>10 W) in MVLs pumped using a capacitive discharge.
V. E. Zuev Institute of Atmospheric Optics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian Branch, 1 Academician Zuev square, 634021 Tomsk, Russia. gubarevfa@tpu.ru
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Gubarev
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Evtushenko
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Vuchkov
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Sukhanov
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Shiyanov