ElectricOIL performance enhancement via increases in g0L

David L. Carroll; Gabriel Benavides; Joseph Zimmerman; Brian Woodard; Andrew D. Palla; Joseph T. Verdeyen; Wayne C. Solomon

doi:10.1117/12.912893

24 February 2012 ElectricOIL performance enhancement via increases in g₀L

David L. Carroll, Gabriel Benavides, Joseph Zimmerman, Brian Woodard, Andrew D. Palla, Joseph T. Verdeyen, Wayne C. Solomon

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Proceedings Volume 8238, High Energy/Average Power Lasers and Intense Beam Applications VI; Atmospheric and Oceanic Propagation of Electromagnetic Waves VI; 823803 (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.912893
Event: SPIE LASE, 2012, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Continuing experiments with Electric Oxygen-Iodine Laser (ElectricOIL) technology have significantly increased laser power output by increasing the product of gain and gain-length, g₀L. The authors report on progress with recent ElectricOIL devices utilizing a new concentric discharge geometry with improved O₂(a¹▵) production at higher discharge operating pressure at higher system flow rates. O₂(a¹▵) produced in flowing radio-frequency discharge in O2- He-NO gas mixture is used to pump I(2P1/2) by near-resonant energy transfer, and laser power is extracted on the I(²P_1/2) → I(²P_3/2) transition at 1315 nm. Modeling of recent data is presented. By increasing the gain length (system size) by a factor of 3, a 5-fold increase in laser output on the 1315-nm transition of atomic iodine was achieved. Flow conditions with g₀L = 0.042 were used to extract a continuous wave (CW) average total laser power of 481 W. A low frequency ±11.9% oscillation in the total power was observed giving a peak outcoupled power of 538 W.

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David L. Carroll, Gabriel Benavides, Joseph Zimmerman, Brian Woodard, Andrew D. Palla, Joseph T. Verdeyen, and Wayne C. Solomon "ElectricOIL performance enhancement via increases in g₀L", Proc. SPIE 8238, High Energy/Average Power Lasers and Intense Beam Applications VI; Atmospheric and Oceanic Propagation of Electromagnetic Waves VI, 823803 (24 February 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.912893

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