R G Caro et al 1982 J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 15 767 doi:10.1088/0022-3727/15/5/007
R G Caro, M C Gower and C E Webb
Show affiliationsThe authors present design and performance details of a simple discharge-excited KrF laser system comprising a slave oscillator injection-locked by a low power master oscillator. A single spark gap is used to control both discharges resulting in reliable synchronisation and sub-nanosecond jitter. The master oscillator is controlled by a cavity employing a grazing incidence grating and can be tuned over the full lasing bandwidth of the oscillator by adjusting only a single micrometer while producing linewidths less than 0.3 cm-1. The laser system is tunable from 248.05 nm to 248.58 nm. Up to 90% of the 5 MW output can be obtained in a single narrow line. The divergence of the output beam is close to the diffraction limit.
42.55.Lt Gas lasers including excimer and metal-vapor lasers
42.60.By Design of specific laser systems
42.65.Re Ultrafast processes; optical pulse generation and pulse compression
52.80.Mg Arcs; sparks; lightning; atmospheric electricity
42.60.Lh Efficiency, stability, gain, and other operational parameters
42.60.Da Resonators, cavities, amplifiers, arrays, and rings
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R G Caro et al 1982 J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 15 767
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