Atmospheric pressure operation of an electron beam excited KrF laser using Kr/F2 mixtures
- 1 December 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 45 (11), 1165-1167
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.95090
Abstract
Atmospheric pressure operation of a KrF laser pumped by 50‐ns electron beams was experimentally investigated. For a 1‐atm mixture of Kr and F2 without diluent, a specific output energy of 4.2 J/1 was obtained at 1.7‐MW/cm3 excitation rate. Under this condition the intrinsic efficiency was about 5% (6% was maximum at 20% Kr in argon diluent) which was comparable to that from 1‐atm normal (10% Kr) mixtures.Keywords
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