Dependence of phantom current in a metal vapor laser on electrode geometry

DK Singh, B Dikshit, R Vijayan, A Nayak… - Laser …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
It is observed that the discharge current in a copper vapor laser rises prior to the voltage
breakdown. This current, which appears almost 50 ns before the discharge breakdown and …

Analysis of the discharge plasma impedance of copper vapor laser

DK Singh, B Dikshit, R Vijayan, J Mukherjee… - Laser …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
In the pursuit to analyze the impedance of copper vapor lasers (CVLs) in different conditions,
a novel approach has been proposed in this paper. The underdamped behavior of the …

Discharge formation in a copper vapor laser: optimal pumping conditions

NA Yudin, HA Baalbaki, CV Nocheva… - Laser …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The electrophysical process in the discharge circuit of a copper vapor laser (CVL) is
investigated. It is shown that the pumping of the active medium of a CVL in gas-discharge …

Copper bromide vapour laser with an output pulse duration of up to 320 ns

FA Gubarev, VF Fedorov, KV Fedorov… - Quantum …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We report the development of a copper bromide vapour laser with an output pulse duration
of up to $320\{\text {ns}} $. To lengthen the pulse, the discharge current was limited using a …

Prospects for improving the energy characteristics of a copper vapor laser

HA Baalbaki, NA Yudin, NN Yudin - Atmospheric and Oceanic Optics, 2023 - Springer
The electrophysical process in the discharge circuit of a copper vapor laser (CVL) with an LT-
10Cu industrial gas discharge tube is studied. It is shown that the pumping of the active …

Spatial–temporal gain distribution of a CuBr vapor brightness amplifier

FA Gubarev, L Li, MS Klenovskii, DV Shiyanov - Applied Physics B, 2016 - Springer
The paper presents the results of study of the radial distribution of radiation inside the
copper bromide vapor amplifiers depending on the time of return of their own reflected …

Modeling technique of capacitive discharge pumping of metal vapor lasers for electrode capacitance optimization

FA Gubarev, GS Evtushenko, NK Vuchkov… - Review of scientific …, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
To estimate optimum gas discharge tube (GDT) electrode capacitance of metal vapor lasers
(MVLs) pumped by a longitudinal capacitive discharge, we offer to use series connection of …

Capacitive-discharge-pumped CuBr laser with 12 W average output power

FA Gubarev, DV Shiyanov… - IEEE Journal of …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents the study of the energy characteristics of a medium scale CuBr laser
(1130 cm 3 active volume) pumped by a longitudinal capacitive discharge. The output power …

Influence of the discharge circuit inductance on output characteristics of a CuBr laser

FA Gubarev, MV Trigub, GS Evtushenko… - … and oceanic optics, 2013 - Springer
The dependence of energy characteristics of an average-volume CuBr laser with and
without addition of HBr on the rate of discharge current rise is studied. The energy …

Excitation and relaxation of metastable atomic states in an active medium of a repetitively pulsed copper vapour laser

PA Bokhan, DE Zakrevskii, MA Lavrukhin… - Quantum …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
The influence of a pre-pulse population of copper atom metastable states and their sub-
population at a current pulse edge on the copper vapour laser pulse energy is studied under …