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High Power Lasers - Science and Engineering

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Editors:
  1. Ram Kossowsky

    1. Emerging Technologies, Inc., Pittsburgh, USA

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  2. Miroslav Jelinek

    1. Physics Institute, Czech Academy of Science, Prague, Czech Republic

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  3. Robert F. Walter

    1. W.J. Schafer Associates, Inc., Alburquerque, USA

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Part of the book series: NATO Science Partnership Subseries: 3 (ASHT, volume 7)

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Table of contents (41 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Design Aspects

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Characteristics of High Power (CO2) Lasers

      • W. J. Witteman
      Pages 3-25

    3. Electric-Discharge Pumping

      • Ian Spalding
      Pages 27-45

    4. Spatial and Temporal Scales of Active Medium Inhomogeneities in High Power Gas Lasers

      • V. L. Moshkov
      Pages 47-82

    5. Gas Lasers with Plasmodynamic Pumping

      • Yu. S. Protasov
      Pages 83-93

    6. Study of New Gain Media for High Power Gas Flow Lasers

      • V. V. Naumov, V. A. Kochelap, I. A. Izmailov
      Pages 95-111

    7. On Unstable Resonators Producing Compact Output Beam

      • N. D. Cherepenin, Sh. Kh. Zaripov, Yu. Ya. Usanov
      Pages 113-123

    8. Dynamics of Lasers with Passive and Active Modulation of Losses

      • L. A. Kotomtseva, A. M. Samson, S. I. Turovets
      Pages 125-137

    9. The time evolution of the electric characteristics of a laser discharge through their waveforms of the voltage and the current

      • P. Persephonis, A. Ioannou, J. Parthenios, C. Georgiades, V. Giannetas
      Pages 139-152

    10. Metal Vapour Lasers

      • G. P. Hogan
      Pages 153-175

    11. Design and Analysis of a Deep UV Laser based on Ce3+: LiSrAIF6

      • T. R. Nelson, F. G. Omenetto, W. Andreas Schroeder, J. W. Longworth, C. K. Rhodes
      Pages 177-184

    12. Simultaneous Emission in UV and IR Region in a Sliding Discharge Excited Laser

      • K. A. Grozdanov, P. A. Atanasov
      Pages 185-190

    13. Experimental and Theoretical Results of High Optical Quality Excimer Laser Beams

      • S. Bollanti, P. Di Lazzaro, F. Flora, G. Giordano, T. Letardi, D. Murra et al.
      Pages 191-198

    14. A High Efficiency Soft X-Ray Laser in the 25–30 nm Spectral Region

      • B. Rus, P. B. Holden, T. Mocek, M. Kalal, P. Zeitoun, A. Demir et al.
      Pages 199-215

    15. The Asterix IV Iodine Laser: Performance and Applications

      • H. Baumhacker, G. Brederlow, K. Eidmann, E. Fill, A. Grabtchikov, Th. Löwer et al.
      Pages 217-237

  3. Optics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 239-239
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    2. High Power Solid State Lasers with Phase Conjugation for Applications with High Beam Quality

      • H. J. Eichler, A. Haase, O. Mehl
      Pages 241-253

    3. Laser Resonator Concepts

      • S. G. Anikitchev
      Pages 255-282

    4. Variable Reflectivity Mirror Unstable Resonator Thermal Lens Compensated by a Deformable Rear Mirror

      • N. Pavel, T. Dascalu, V. Lupei, H. Totia
      Pages 283-292
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In the thirty years since the invention of the CO2 gas laser, the major design issue has shifted from how to obtain the desired power level to how to achieve reliable operation. At the same time, the opening of many laser development facilities in the Former Soviet Union has allowed their achievements and design approaches to be understood and appreciated for the first time. Further, the industrial laser user community has identified a number of emerging applications at higher power levels (15-20 kW) than are attainable by most commercial devices.
In High Power Lasers - Science and Engineering, the designers, developers and users of high-power gas laser systems discuss design approaches, methods of enhancing performance, new applications, and user requirements.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Emerging Technologies, Inc., Pittsburgh, USA

    Ram Kossowsky

  • Physics Institute, Czech Academy of Science, Prague, Czech Republic

    Miroslav Jelinek

  • W.J. Schafer Associates, Inc., Alburquerque, USA

    Robert F. Walter

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