High-efficiency CuBr laser with interacting peaking circuits

摘要

An innovation in CuBr laser excitation causes a significant increase of the output power and laser efficiency. The novel electrical circuitry consists of two interacting peaking circuits. A comparison of the operation parameters between an ordinary-circuitry (OC) excited CuBr laser and the novel-circuitry (interacting peaking circuits, IPC) excited CuBr laser is made. An efficiency of 1.45 at 17.4 W average output of the IPC CuBr laser is obtained.