• Chinese Optics Letters
  • Vol. 2, Issue 10, 10597 (2004)
Hussein Badran1、2, Zhaoshuo Tian1、*, and Qi Wang1
Author Affiliations
  • 1National Key Laboratory of Tunable Laser Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001
  • 2Department of Physics, College of Education, University of Basra, Basra, Iraq
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    Hussein Badran, Zhaoshuo Tian, Qi Wang. Compact waveguide CO2 laser excited by a RF power supply[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2004, 2(10): 10597 Copy Citation Text show less

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    The design and performance of radio frequency (RF) excited partial Z-fold waveguide CO2 laser with two channels are exposed. The length of the partial Z-fold channel is 3*460 mm and that of the single channel is 460 mm. The electrodes for the two channels are common and excited by a same RF source. According to our analysis, this kind of structure can greatly improve the laser offset frequency stability. In the experiments, we studied the variation of laser output power with gas pressure for two different channels. The maximum laser output power is about 23 W for the partial Z-fold channel and about 6 W for the single channel.
    Hussein Badran, Zhaoshuo Tian, Qi Wang. Compact waveguide CO2 laser excited by a RF power supply[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2004, 2(10): 10597
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