Gas Flow and Chemical Lasers

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XIII

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2. Fluid Dynamics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Density Homogeneity Control in Repetitively Pulsed Gas Lasers

      • E. Baum, C. G. Koop, V. A. Kulkerny, K. R. Magiawala, J. Shwartz

      Pages 2-14

   3. Aerodynamic Curtains Design for Gas Flow Laser Cavities

      • S. Kaizerman, Y. Nachshon, E. Wacholder

      Pages 15-21

   4. Kinetics of Condensation in Supersonic Expansion (Ar)

      • S. H. Bauer, N.-S. Chiu, C. F. Wilcox Jr.

      Pages 22-28

   5. Effect of Inlet Pressure on Chemical Laser Flowfield

      • D. Zeitoun, M. Imbert, L. Torchin, R. Brun

      Pages 29-33

   6. Fluid-Dynamic Effects, Including Turbulence, on a High-Pressure Discharge

      • O. Biblarz, J. L. Barto

      Pages 34-39

   7. Characteristics of Turbulent Flow Stabilized DC-Discharges for CO2 Lasers

      • H. Brunet, M. Mabru, M. Gastaud

      Pages 40-43

   8. Flow Investigations of Pulsed Arc Discharge Recombination Lasers

      • W. O. Schall, W. Mayerhofer, G. Spindler

      Pages 44-49

3. Optics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 51-51

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   2. New Developments in Optical Phase Conjugation

      • I. J. Bigio, R. A. Fisher, T. R. Gosnell, N. A. Kurnit, T. R. Loree, T. R. Moore et al.

      Pages 52-59

   3. Nonlinear Optical Phase Conjugation of HF Laser Radiation Via Stimulated Brillouin Scattering

      • W. T. Whitney, M. T. Duignan, B. J. Feldman

      Pages 60-64

   4. Theory of Wavefront Replication in the Dirac Bracket Operator Formalism

      • A. Flusberg, D. Korff

      Pages 65-65

   5. Laser-Controlled Reflection with a Distributed Feedback Dye Laser

      • I. Golub, R. Shuker, G. Erez

      Pages 66-67

   6. High Efficiency Raman Conversion of UV to Blue-Green Light

      • E. Margalith

      Pages 68-71

   7. Mirror Optics for High-Power Laser Beams

      • W. Jüptner, R. Rothe, G. Sepold

      Pages 72-81

   8. Deformation Measurements on CO2-Laser Output Couplers in Operating High-Power Laser Systems

      • M. Berger, W. Kottler

      Pages 82-89

   9. Effect of Beam Quality on the Scaling of High-Energy Flow Lasers

      • W. L. Bohn, Th. Hall

      Pages 90-95

   10. Experimental Investigations of a Free-Vortex Aerodynamic Window

       • E. Wildermuth, A. Giesen, H. Hügel

       Pages 96-100

4. Short-Wavelength Lasers

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 101-101

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The Sixth International Symposium on Gas Flow and Chemical Lasers (GCL) was held in Jerusalem, Israel, on September 8-12, 1986. The charm and beauty of Jerusalem and the unique blending of ancient and modern made this Symposium an enjoyable experience for the 165 participants and the accompanying persons. Yet, it seems that the invited and contributed papers presented at the Symposium were equally attractive so that most of the participants attended most sessions, resisting the temptations outside the session hall. Indeed, many speakers presented up-to-date results that were obtained, or cleared, just a few days before the Symposium. This volume is a compi­ lation of 19 invited and 61 contributed papers and of a panel discussion on the prospects for short wavelength chemical lasers held at the closing session of the Symposium. This discussion is presented as recorded in order to re­ tain the flavour of spontaneous presentation at the risk - or advantage - of presenting some venturous ideas, and the danger of misquoting. In editing the book, a deductive approach has been attempted. The book starts with some fundamental issues, namely fluid dynamics and optics, and then deals with the design, diagnostics, propagation and applications of various gas laser systems, covering the wavelength spectrum from XUV to infrared. Then follow recent developments of general interest to the laser community and the book concludes with an eye to the future, i.e., with a section on short wavelength chemical lasers.

• chemical laser
• development
• diagnostics
• dynamics
• flow
• fluid
• fluid dynamics
• future
• infrared
• laser
• optics
• risk
• scattering
• spectroscopy
• transmission

• Department of Physics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

  Salman Rosenwaks

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