Broadband gas isolator for high-power CO₂ lasers

Abstract

The design and evaluation of an efficient multicomponent, nonlinear gas isolator are described. Such an SF₆-based isolator has been used successfully to suppress parastic oscillations in a large-aperture CO₂ laser system.

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