Mode locking of a CW supersonic chemical oxygen-iodine laser |
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| Authors: | Phipps S.P. Helms C.A. Copland R.J. Rudolph W. Truesdell K.A. Hager G.D. |
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| Affiliation: | Phillips Lab./LIDB, Kirtland AFB, NM; |
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This paper presents the results of the first mode-locking experiments on a supersonic chemical oxygen-iodine laser (COIL). Mode locking has been achieved using an acoustooptic modulator (AOM) and lasing demonstrated on the TEM00 modes with a small intracavity aperture. A dc magnetic field was used to increase the number of axial modes and a peak power of 2.5 kW has been reached with a pulse width of 2.1 ns at a repetition rate of 43.68 MHz |
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