Performance Analyses of Flowing Chemical Oxygen-Iodine Laser

Performance analyses of flowing chemical oxygen-iodine laser.

A modified simplified rate-equation model that utilizes the Voigt profile function and another gain saturation model deduced from the kinetic equations are presented for performance analyses of a flowing chemical oxygen-iodine laser. Both models are adapted to both the condition of homogeneous broadening and that of inhomogeneous broadening being of importance and the condition of inhomogeneous...

Simulation of Flow Unsteadiness in Chemical Oxygen-iodine Laser Devices

An Analysis of Mechanisms Underlying Flow Unsteadiness in Chemical Oxygen- Iodine Laser Mixing Systems

Electric Oxygen-Iodine Laser Performance Enhancement using Larger Discharge and Resonator Mode Volumes

The authors observed 95% enhancement in continuous-wave laser power on the 1315 nm transition of atomic iodine for only a 50% increase in gain length (5.1 cm to 7.6 cm), flow rates, and discharge input power, making use of a large volume 16-mm gap transverse discharge. A gain of 0.26% cm was obtained and the laser output power was 55 W in a stable resonator with two 5 cm (2-in.) diameter, 0.997...

Genetic Algorithms and Optimizing Chemical Oxygen-iodine Lasers

This paper presents results from the first known application of the genetic algorithm (GA) technique for optimizing the performance of a laser system (chemical, solid-state, or gaseous). The effects of elitism, single point and uniform crossover, creep mutation, different random number seeds, population size, niching and the number of children per pair of parents on the performance of the GA fo...