High-power, high-pressure pulsed CO2 lasers and their applications

The paper is devoted to problems associated with the construction of high-power pulsed CO₂ lasers and high-pressure amplifiers and to an analysis of the possible ways of their solution. Prospects of the development of such lasers and their applications in technological processes are considered. Original designs of a laser complex for obtaining the carbon-13 isotope and a superatmospheric-pressure CO₂ amplifier are presented.