Compact three-electrodes excimer laser IANUS for a POPA optical system

Sarah Bollanti; Paolo Di Lazzaro; Francesco Flora; Gualtiero Giordano; Tommaso Letardi; C. Petrucci; Giovanni Schina; Cheng En Zheng

doi:10.1117/12.184577

16 August 1994 Compact three-electrodes excimer laser IANUS for a POPA optical system

Sarah Bollanti, Paolo Di Lazzaro, Francesco Flora, Gualtiero Giordano, Tommaso Letardi, C. Petrucci, Giovanni Schina, Cheng En Zheng

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Proceedings Volume 2206, High-Power Gas and Solid State Lasers; (1994) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.184577
Event: Europto High Power Lasers and Laser Applications V, 1994, Vienna, Austria

Abstract

A novel discharge configuration has been realized with the XeCl laser IANUS, which has been developed at the ENEA Frascati center as a 1:1 laser head prototype for the 1 kW average output power XeCl system EOLUS (EUREKA EU211 Project). The patented design of the discharge region consists of two active zones which are geometrically in parallel and electrically in series. The obvious advantages of this configuration are, the presence of the intermediate high impedance electrode, suitable for prepulse application, then the absence of current return bars, so improving the recirculating gas flow uniformity, and the automatic synchronization of the two discharges very useful for a compact oscillator-amplifier configuration (POPA). A number of measurements have been done on IANUS, to have an almost complete characterization; based on these results a generalized self-filtering unstable resonator (GSFUR) has been designed and realized on the smaller gap, leaving the other active medium for the high optical quality beam amplification, in the scheme of a POPA system. The GSFUR output beam results are 1.5 times the diffraction limit, with an energy of 9 mJ in a 87 ns FWHM pulse.

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Sarah Bollanti, Paolo Di Lazzaro, Francesco Flora, Gualtiero Giordano, Tommaso Letardi, C. Petrucci, Giovanni Schina, and Cheng En Zheng "Compact three-electrodes excimer laser IANUS for a POPA optical system", Proc. SPIE 2206, High-Power Gas and Solid State Lasers, (16 August 1994); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.184577

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