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Saturable gas absorber for a 9-microm-band CO2-laser amplifier
P Woskoboinikow1, H C Praddaude, W J Mulligan
1Francis Bitter National Magnet Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.
Optics Letters
|August 19, 2009
Abstract:
A two-component saturable gas absorber composed of formic acid and SF(6) in separate cells has been successfully used as an isolator in a TEA-CO(2)-amplifier chain for amplifying several 9-microm-band transitions. This isolator suppressed all amplifier self-oscillations in both the 9- and 10-microm bands and was saturated at intensities over 1 MW cm(-2) by 130-nsec, 9-microm band pulses.
