Abstract
The average power of a pulsed discharge laser may be increased either by increasing the single pulse energy or by pulsing the laser at a higher repetition rate while insuring that the single pulse energy is not decreased. It has been an inverse correlation, of pulse energy with repetition rate that has frustrated previous attempts to scale the nitrogen ion laser to high average powers.
© 1984 Optical Society of America
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