Production of a line image from a multimode high-energy laser

Vance A. Hedin; Rudy M. Martinez; Burton D. O'Neil; Daniel M. Hodgkiss

doi:10.1117/12.58933

1 June 1992 Production of a line image from a multimode high-energy laser

Vance A. Hedin, Rudy M. Martinez, Burton D. O'Neil, Daniel M. Hodgkiss

Proceedings Volume 1625, Design, Modeling, and Control of Laser Beam Optics; (1992) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.58933
Event: OE/LASE '92, 1992, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Abstract

The output of the Phillips Laboratory's CO2 Electric Discharge Coaxial Laser (EDCL II) is a nominal 13.2 centimeter diameter beam with over one hundred transverse modes and a divergence of over ten milliradians at forty kilowatts. In support of a critical test series, several resonator configurations were examined to reduce the output beam divergence to facilitate production of a beam on-target of 0.005 X 1.0 inches with high irradiance. Resonator reconfiguration of EDCL II with the associated beam shaping optical train and measured experimental results are discussed.

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Vance A. Hedin, Rudy M. Martinez, Burton D. O'Neil, and Daniel M. Hodgkiss "Production of a line image from a multimode high-energy laser", Proc. SPIE 1625, Design, Modeling, and Control of Laser Beam Optics, (1 June 1992); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.58933

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