Abstract
We recently developed a high-pressure transverse-discharge copper-vapor laser (TD-CVL) using a fast flat-plate Blumlein pulse-forming circuit. It was demonstrated with the system that a specific laser energy density of more than 50 μJ/cm3 can be generated.1-3 Also, it was demonstrated that in a TD-CVL high buffer gas pressure up to an atmosphere can be used because of the high E/(Nn)1/2 that can be achieved. Here E is the electric field in the discharge laser cell, N is the buffer gas number density, and n is the copper vapor density.
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