SUPER-GAUSSIAN REFLECTIVITY UNSTABLE RESONATOR FOR EXCIMER LASERS

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PERRONE, MR [1 ]
MEZZOLLA, F [1 ]
CALI, C [1 ]
PACE, C [1 ]
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[1] DIPARTIMENTO INGN ELETT,I-90128 PALERMO,ITALY
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10.1063/1.106391
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O59 [应用物理学];
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High-mode-volume, good optical quality laser beams of 55 mJ, of 19 ns duration and with a brightness of 3 X 10(13) W cm-2 Sr-1, have been extracted from a high-gain, short-pulse XeCl laser, with an unstable resonator using a super-Gaussian reflectivity mirror. The misalignment angle of the output coupler to decrease the normalized output energy by 20% was 3.5 mrad.
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页码:1153 / 1155
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