Resonator to Laser Cavity Decoupling Interface for Chemical Oxygen Iodine Laser

Simulation of Flow Unsteadiness in Chemical Oxygen-iodine Laser Devices

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...

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...

Compound-cavity laser modes for arbitrary interface reflectivity.

Calculations of the longitudinal mode functions for the electric field of a compound-cavity laser show that the loss and gain coefficients are given by the Airy formula, as a function of the mode frequencies. Further, when the external cavity is longer than the gain-medium cavity, the frequency dependence of the gain is stronger than that of the loss, even when the intracavity surfaces are anti...

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