Experimental study of CW CO2 lasers with wavelength tuning

Lijie Geng; Pengji Yan; Shuaifei Song; Zhenxiang Fu; Bingwen Wang; Liying Jiang; Ruiliang Zhang; Zhifeng Zhang; Kun Yang

doi:10.1117/12.3030527

3 June 2024 Experimental study of CW CO₂ lasers with wavelength tuning

Lijie Geng, Pengji Yan, Shuaifei Song, Zhenxiang Fu, Bingwen Wang, Liying Jiang, Ruiliang Zhang, Zhifeng Zhang, Kun Yang

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Proceedings Volume 13182, 2024 International Conference on Optoelectronic Information and Optical Engineering (OIOE 2024); 1318210 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3030527
Event: 2024 International Conference on Optoelectronic Information and Optical Engineering (OIOE 2024), 2024, Kunming, China

Abstract

This paper presents a study on continuous wave tunable CO₂ lasers, which could be used in good pumping source of optically pumped gas THz laser. A series of comparative experiments to investigate the effects of cavity structure and discharge current on laser tunability and output power was conducted. The wavelength selection of CO₂ lasers primarily achieved by altering the angle of incidence of the blazing grating. Two enclosed CO₂ laser tubes were designed and customized, one was used for external cavity structure and the other was used for semi-external cavity structure research. Using the semi-external cavity structure, 78 lines was obtained at the range of 9-11μm, and achieved 60.7 W of laser output power at a wavelength of 10.59 μm. A beam quality factor of M² = 1.68 was measured using the traveling 90/10 knife-edge method.

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Lijie Geng, Pengji Yan, Shuaifei Song, Zhenxiang Fu, Bingwen Wang, Liying Jiang, Ruiliang Zhang, Zhifeng Zhang, and Kun Yang "Experimental study of CW CO₂ lasers with wavelength tuning", Proc. SPIE 13182, 2024 International Conference on Optoelectronic Information and Optical Engineering (OIOE 2024), 1318210 (3 June 2024); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3030527

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