RESEARCH ON PROPERTIES OF LASER DEVICES

Abstract

Experimental work on gaseous and solid-state laser development is reported. The high temperature Mn collision laser tests indicated that insufficient gain was achieved to obtain oscillation with present apparatus. Experiments testing La and Y as collision laser media were concluded after demonstrating that higher discharge currents and higher operating temperatures than presently available were required. The possibility that photodissociation of thallum bromide in the presence of a quenching gas could lead to a population inversion was experimentally investigated. Mach-Zehnder interferograms of the transient optical path distortions introduced by optical pumping of ruby were obtained. An R1 ruby laser pumped by an R2 ruby laser experiment was designed and the construction of the apparatus initiated.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 15, 1965
Accession Number
AD0627353

Entities

People

  • N. Solimene

Organizations

  • Control Data Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Construction
  • Crystal Structure
  • Current Density
  • Distortion
  • Electron Tubes
  • Energy Levels
  • Glass Lasers
  • Laser Beams
  • Lasers
  • Light Sources
  • Measurement
  • Optical Properties
  • Radiation
  • Refractive Index
  • Ruby Lasers
  • Solid State Lasers
  • Vapor Pressure

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Molecular Photonics/Laser Physics
  • Optical Physics and Photonics.

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Directed Energy - Lasers