LONG-TERM OPERATION OF A SEALED WAVEGUIDE CO2 LASER
- Authors
- Corporate Authors
- Defence Research Establishment Valcartier, Valcartier QUE (CAN)
- Abstract
- A mass spectrometer has been utilized to study the gas composition during operation of a CO2 laser using a BeO waveguide. The results indicate that the use of a drying agent to absorb water vapor has allowed us to achieve lifetimes in excess of 5000 h in sealed waveguide lasers.
- Date of publication
- 01 Jan 1981
- Number of Pages
- 4
- Reprinted from
- Review of Scientific Instruments, vol 52, no 10, 1981, p 1493-1496
- DSTKIM No
- 82-01003
- CANDIS No
- 35589
- Format(s):
- Hardcopy;Originator's fiche received by DSIS
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