Boosted Laser Output by Kinetics Enhancement in Copper Vapour Lasers

Abstract

Over recent years we have shown that we can engineer the kinetics of conventional high-temperature CVLs using hydrogen additives, thereby improving their performance. In particular, we have shown that we can improve the spatio-temporal output characteristics of small- amd medium scale CVL systems, improving both their raw output power [1],[2] and high beam quality extraction [3].