By: Ram Kossowsky (Editor), Miroslav Jelinek (Editor), Robert F. Walter (Editor)

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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.

Design Aspects. Characteristics of High Power CO2 Lasers
Electric-Discharge Pumping; I. Spalding.
Spatial and Temporal Scales of Active Medium Inhomogeneities in High Power Gas Lasers
Gas Lasers with Plasmodynamic Pumping
Study of Gain Media for High Power Gas Flow Lasers
On Unstable Resonators Producing Compact Output Beam
Dynamics of Lasers with Passive and Active Modulation of Losses
The Time Evolution of the Electric Characteristics of a Laser Discharge Through Their Waveforms of the Voltage and the Current
Metal Vapour Lasers; G.P. Hogan. Design and Analysis of a Deep UV Laser Based on Ce3+:LiSrAIF6
Simultaneous Emission in UV and IR Region in a Sliding Discharge Excited Laser
Experimental and Theoretical Results of High Optical Quality Excimer Laser Beams
A High Efficiency Soft X-Ray Laser in the 25-30 nm Spectral Region
The Asterix IV Iodine Laser: Performance and Applications
Optics. High Power Solid State Lasers with Phase Conjugation for Applications with High Beam Quality
Laser Resonator Concepts; S.G. Anikitchev. Variable Reflectivity Mirror Unstable Resonator Thermal Lens Compensated by a Deformable Rear Mirror
Beam Transport Optics for Highpower Laser Systems
Highpower UV Excilamps
Reproducible Ultrashort Pulses and Multistable Monochromatic Emission from Solidstate Lasers with Saturable Absorber and Negative Feedback Loop
An Extended Characterization of Flattened Gaussian Beams
Optics for X-Ray Laser and Laser Plasma Soft X-Ray Radiation
Computer Simulation of the Laser Beam Intensity Distribution in Resonant Cavities
Measurements. Laser Medium Quality Control
Laser Thermal-Wave Diagnostics of Stressed States in Metals
Experimental Studies of Reflection Ability of Liquid Metal Targets in Vacuum Under Conditions of Neodymium Laser Pulse Radiation
Reconstruction of a Light Beam Wave Front by Synthesis of a Shear Interferogram
Experimental Investigations of the Output Beam Properties from a High Power CW CO2 Laser
The Applications of a Near-IR Laser to Raman Spectroscopy: FT-Raman Spectroscopic Studies of Adsorbed Species
Applications. Highpower Lasers in Materials Processing endash; an Automotive Perspective
LCVD with Copper Vapour and Copper Bromide Vapour Lasers endash; Review
Laser Deposition and Characterization of A-C and A-C:N Films
Anisotropic Melting of Semiconductor at Irradiation by Powerful Light Pulses; Ya.V. Fattakhov, et al.
Excimer Laser Assisted Deposition and Characterization of Molybdenum Films endash; Fabrication of Molybdenum Coatings on Optical Fibres
Pulsed Laser-Induced Synthesis of Metal Sulphides in Sulphurous Liquids Under Action of Shock Waves
Laser Patterning of Thin Films
Applications of Nd and Er:YAG Lasers in Ophthalmology and Dentistry
Index
List of Participants.
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ISBN: 9780792339595
ISBN-10: 0792339592
Series: NATO Science Partnership Subseries: 3
Audience: Professional
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 684
Published: 29th February 1996
Dimensions (cm): 23.5 x 15.5  x 3.6
Weight (kg): 1.133