A grating tuning compound unstable resonator is presented. This new type of unstable resonator is profitable for TEA CO2 laser to generate single mode, high energy, high average power tunable laser radiation.
KEYWORDS: Electrodes, Carbon dioxide lasers, Gas lasers, Switches, Power supplies, Capacitors, Pulsed laser operation, High power lasers, Fluctuations and noise, Mirrors
A high average power TEA CO2 laser employing rotating spark gap switch is described. Average power up to 12kW has
been achieved at the repetition rate of 400Hz.
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