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Published on: July 10, 2021
Transverse pattern morphogenesis in a CO(2) laser
Abstract:
Irregular and nonrepetitive transverse intensity distributions were measured in the near field during the gain-switch pulse (60-ns width) of a transversely excited atmospheric CO(2) laser. Transverse patterns are regular and repetitive in the long-pulse (1-micros width) mode and in ensemble average in the short-pulse mode, and in both cases symmetry is imposed by the boundary conditions. Short-pulse transverse patterns formed by lasing domains appear with a mean size of 0.8 mm. The prediction of domain size based on a model of population inversion filamentation agrees with the experimental result.
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