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Efficient electric-discharge CO2 laser with a prepulse formed by a generator with an inductive energy storage device

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Results are presented of experimental investigations of a CO2 laser pumped by a self-sustained discharge from a generator with an inductive energy storage device and a semiconductor current chopper. It is shown that the energy stored in the inductance of the discharge circuit can form a prepulse capable of depositing most of the energy in the active mixture for nearoptimum values of the parameter E/p. A radiation energy of 3 J was achieved in an electricdischarge laser with a 0.181 liter active volume with a 17% efficiency relative to the energy stored in the capacitive storage device.

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  1. Institute of High-Current Electronics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Tomsk

    E. Kh. Baksht, V. M. Orlovskii, A. N. Panchenko & V. F. Tarasenko

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  2. V. M. Orlovskii
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Pis’ma Zh. Tekh. Fiz. 24, 57–61 (February 26, 1998)

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Baksht, E.K., Orlovskii, V.M., Panchenko, A.N. et al. Efficient electric-discharge CO2 laser with a prepulse formed by a generator with an inductive energy storage device. Tech. Phys. Lett. 24, 148–149 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1262030

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