More laser power with electron‐beam control
DOI: 10.1063/1.3070668
Our best hope for an ultrahigh‐power laser with good beam quality appears to lie with molecular gas‐discharge devices. The development of these lasers has so far been limited by the difficulty of maintaining stable discharge conditions and by the impossibility of producing a design scalable in all its parameters—size, pressure, and so on. That is, a certain discharge device that runs well cannot in general be rebuilt twice the size for increased power. Now at least three groups in the US and one in Russia are experimenting with devices embodying electron‐beam‐controlled discharges to solve some of these problems.
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