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Lasers
Diffractive focusing of an input pulse and giant energy gain in a laser based on an auto-wave photon-branched network
V. I. Igoshin, R. R. Letfullin Samara Branch of P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences
Abstract:
The wave approximation is used to analyse the energy parameters and the spatiotemporal behaviour of the electromagnetic field in a pulsed chemical laser based on a photon-branched chain reaction in an unstable telescopic cavity with an input coupling aperture through which the reaction is initiated by IR radiation in a gaseous disperse medium composed of H2 , F2 , O2 , He, and Al particles. It is shown that diffractive multifocal focusing of a plane input wave, ensuring minimisation of the initially excited volume and a correspondingly strong reduction (down to microjoules) of the required input pulse energy, occurs in the range of small input aperture diameters d0 = (3 — 30)λ. A giant energy gain of ~3×109 can be reached as a result of this optical effect and also because of auto-wave propagation of a photon-branched chain reaction throughout the whole volume of the laser. This giant gain makes it possible to construct a self-contained laser with a kilojoule output energy, which can be initiated by microjoule input pulses.
Received: 22.09.1998
Citation:
V. I. Igoshin, R. R. Letfullin, “Diffractive focusing of an input pulse and giant energy gain in a laser based on an auto-wave photon-branched network”, Kvantovaya Elektronika, 26:1 (1999), 37–42 [Quantum Electron., 29:1 (1999), 37–42]
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