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Direct Imaging of Laser-driven Ultrafast Molecular Rotation
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Carbon dioxide waveguide lasers with folds and tilted mirrors
Applied Optics
|June 22, 2010
Abstract:
We present theoretical and experimental results for an rf-excited z-fold CO(2) waveguide laser. We describe how the output power, output rotational line(s) and transverse mode(s) vary as functions of elbow mirror tilt and obtain good agreement with predictions from a multimode matrix resonator model. Observations of multilining and/or multifrequency operation are partly explained by the near equality of gain/loss ratios for two or more resonator modes.

