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Investigation of a copper-vapor laser pumped by trains of damped sine pulses

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A copper-vapor laser the lasing medium of which is pumped by damped sine voltage pulses is studied experimentally. It is shown that this laser can operate at megahertz lasing pulse repetition rates. Each current pulse in a train of damped sine excitation pulses generates a lasing pulse. The time between lasing pulses is no more than 224 ns, which corresponds to a lasing pulse repetition rate of more than 4.5 MHz. According to estimates, the use of the megahertz sine voltage to excite the copper-vapor laser may raise the specific power of laser radiation by at least an order of magnitude at an efficiency of ≈15%.

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  1. Zuev Institute of Atmospheric Optics, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, pl. Akademika Zueva 1, Tomsk, 634021, Russia

    V. A. Gerasimov

  2. Tomsk State University, Leninskii pr. 36, Tomsk, 634050, Russia

    V. V. Gerasimov

  3. Institute of Monitoring of Climatic and Ecological Systems, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Akademicheskii pr. 10/3, Tomsk, 634055, Russia

    V. V. Gerasimov

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Original Russian Text © V.A. Gerasimov, V.V. Gerasimov, 2011, published in Zhurnal Tekhnicheskoĭ Fiziki, 2011, Vol. 81, No. 1, pp. 153–156.

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Gerasimov, V.A., Gerasimov, V.V. Investigation of a copper-vapor laser pumped by trains of damped sine pulses. Tech. Phys. 56, 147–150 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063784211010105

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