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Optimal design for a copper vapor laser with a maximum output by using a genetic algorithm

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To obtain the maximum output of a copper vapor laser (CVL), 8 parameters of the CVL system including the length and radius of the laser tube, the peak voltage, the repetition frequency, the wall temperature and the LC parameters of the discharge circuit are optimized by using a genetic algorithm. The optimization has increased the laser power by 89% from primary 91 W (corresponding to the empirical configuration for the CVL system used in an experiment) to 172 W (the efficiency has also been increased from primary 1 to 1.16%).

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  1. Center for Optical and Electromagnetic Research, State Key Laboratory for Modern Optical Instrumentation, Zhejiang University, Yu-Quan, Hangzhou, 310027, China

    Cheng Cheng & Sailing He

  2. Department of Physics, Hangzhou Normal College, Hangzhou, 310012, China

    Cheng Cheng

  3. Department of Electromagnetic Theory, Royal Institute of Technology, S-100 44, Stockholm, Sweden

    Sailing He

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Cheng, C., He, S. Optimal design for a copper vapor laser with a maximum output by using a genetic algorithm. Optical and Quantum Electronics 33, 83–98 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1007084214656

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