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Trace levels of volatile or metallic impurities can dramatically affect metal vapour laser performance. We report a detailed investigation of impurity effects, with emphasis on characterizing and explaining the beneficial influence of hydrogen additives on output power, repetition rate scaling, and high beam quality extraction from CVLs.
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Brown, D.J.W., Withford, M.J., Mildren, R.P., Piper, J.A. (1996). The Effects of Impurities on Metal Vapour Laser Performance. In: Little, C.E., Sabotinov, N.V. (eds) Pulsed Metal Vapour Lasers. NATO ASI Series, vol 5. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1669-2_15
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