The development of scalable high power lasers in the UV-visible range and ultrashort high brightness laser sources will have significant impact in a number of key technologies. Experiments of scaling the e-beam pumped XeF(C—>A) laser system to the 1 Joule/pulse output level at a 1 Hz repetition rate are described. Recent progress in the amplification of tunable ultrashort laser pulses in the visible spectrum, utilizing the broadband XeF(C—>A) excimer transition, is also reported.

Date Published: 1 February 1991
PDF: 10 pages
Proc. SPIE 1397, 8th Intl Symp on Gas Flow and Chemical Lasers, (1 February 1991); doi: 10.1117/12.25916

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 1397:
8th Intl Symp on Gas Flow and Chemical Lasers
Concepcion Maroto Domingo; Jose M. Orza, Editor(s)