Expanding beam concept for building very large excimer laser amplifiers

J. H. Jacob; M. Rokni; R. E. Klinkowstein; S. Singer

doi:10.1063/1.96538

Expanding beam concept for building very large excimer laser amplifiers

J. H. Jacob^*, M. Rokni, R. E. Klinkowstein, S. Singer

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Optical extraction efficiency from conventional lasers and amplifiers with nonsaturable intrinsic absorption is substantially below the maximum efficiency at absorption length products exceeding unity. This result is caused by the fact that high intensities in the amplifier cause saturation of gain but not absorption. In this letter, a new scalable amplifier concept is analyzed which maintains near maximum extraction efficiency as the laser length increases beyond absorption length products of unity.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	318-320
Number of pages	3
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	48
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.96538
State	Published - 1986
Externally published	Yes

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