Gas Flow and Chemical Lasers

Table of Contents

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   Book Overview
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   Chapter 1 Chemically Pumped Electronic Transition Lasers
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   Chapter 2 Optical Resonance Transfer Lasers for Mode Control
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   Chapter 3 Optical Phase Conjugation in Laser Resonators
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   Chapter 4 Laser Material Processing
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   Chapter 5 The Oxygen-Iodine Chemical Laser
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   Chapter 6 Air Force Laser Research
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   Chapter 7 Flow Laser Diagnostic Techniques
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   Chapter 8 Pulsed-Laser/Material Interaction
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    Chapter 9 Numerical Solutions of Complete and Reduced Navier-Stokes Equations for Supersonic Chemical Laser Flow Modeling
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    Chapter 10 A Pulsed, Multi-Kilohertz-Repetition-Rate, Supersonic HF Chemical Laser
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    Chapter 11 Saturation Processes in Doppler-Broadened HF Vibrational Transition
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    Chapter 12 Enhanced Mixing in Co-Flowing Laminar Streams
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    Chapter 13 Experimental Study of the Spectral Output of a DF-Laser
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    Chapter 14 Operation of a Small Scale, Efficient Chemical Oxygen-Iodine Laser and Study of the Reaction of O 2 ( 1 Δ) with Pb Atoms
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    Chapter 15 A New Numerical Method for Turbulent Mixing of Supersonic Reacting Flows in Chemical Laser Cavities
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    Chapter 16 Theoretical and Experimental Study of cw HF Chemical Laser Performance
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    Chapter 17 Propagation Velocity of the Ionization Front Driven by a High-Current Relativistic E-Beam through the Active Laser Media of Increased Pressure
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    Chapter 18 Time Resolved Spectra and Small Signal Gain in HF: An Experimental and Theoretical Investigation
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    Chapter 19 Quasi One-Dimensional Model of a Ring Diffusion cw Chemical Laser and Some of Its Applications
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    Chapter 20 Flowfield Diagnostics of Supersonic cw HF Chemical Laser by Using Improved LIF and Chemiluminescence Methods
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    Chapter 21 Rapid Expansion Nozzles for Gasdynamic Lasers
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    Chapter 22 Turbulence Measurement in the Flow of a CO 2 LEDA Type Laser
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    Chapter 23 Subsonic TE N 2 -Co Mixing Laser
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    Chapter 24 Numerical Estimations of 16 μm CO 2 Gasdynamic Lasers with Various Contours of 2-Dimensional Nozzles
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    Chapter 25 On Simple Estimation of Characteristics for CO 2 /N 2 Mixing Gasdynamic Laser
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    Chapter 26 Aerodynamic Disturbances from Supersonic Nozzle Arrays
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    Chapter 27 Modeling of 16-μm CO 2 Gasdynamic Laser in Intracavity Cascading Mode
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    Chapter 28 Development of a Closed-Cycle CW TE CO Laser Operating in the Temperature Region 100–300 K
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    Chapter 29 Microwave Excited Gasdynamic CO 2 -Laser
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    Chapter 30 Screen Nozzle Mixing Laser Calculations
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    Chapter 31 Theoretical Design of Mixing Gasdynamic Lasers
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    Chapter 32 Two Simplified Models and Their Application to Performance Study of Mixing Gasdynamic Lasers
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    Chapter 33 Photoionization of CO 2 and CO Laser Media Containing Low-Ionization-Potential NO-NO 2 Admixtures
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    Chapter 34 High Power Blackbody Pumped CO 2 Lasers
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    Chapter 35 A Novel Command Charging System for High Repetition-Rate Pulsed Discharge Lasers
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    Chapter 36 Flow Effects on the Laser Power of Transverse Flow TE Lasers
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    Chapter 37 Flow Characteristics of Closed Loop High PRF E-Beam or X-ray-Assisted Discharge Exciplex Laser
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    Chapter 38 A New 10kW Industrial Carbon Dioxide Laser
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    Chapter 39 Further Development of the Non-Stationary Stochastic Model of Diffuse Electric Discharges in Turbulent Gas Flows
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    Chapter 40 The Effect of Chemical Processes on the Stratification of Volume-Dominated Gas Discharges
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    Chapter 41 A Study of Propagation of a Conducting Channel in the Plasma of a Non-Self-Sustained Discharge
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    Chapter 42 Suppressing Attachment-Induced Instabilities by Operating Gas Discharges in an HF Mode
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    Chapter 43 Limiting Energy Inputs in the Non-Self-Sustained Discharge of a CO 2 -Flow Laser
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    Chapter 44 Subsonic Flow CO 2 Laser with Transverse RF Excitation
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    Chapter 45 High-Repetition-Rate Long-Pulse-Discharge XeCl Laser Preionized by a Low-Density Electron or X-ray Beam
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    Chapter 46 A Compact 75 Watts CO 2 Laser at 750 Hertz
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    Chapter 47 Scaling Relations for the Plasma Recombination Laser
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    Chapter 48 Kinetic Study of the VUV Emissions of Ar-Kr Mixtures
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    Chapter 49 CW Ion-Argon-Lasers with the Supersonic Transverse Gas Flow
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    Chapter 50 Rovibrational State Population Distributions Calculated from Spontaneous Fluorescence Measurements for CO (v ≲ 4, J≲ 10) in Highly Heated Supersonic Free Jets of CO in N 2 and Ar
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    Chapter 51 A XeF-Excimer Laser Excited in a Longitudinal Discharge
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    Chapter 52 Population Inversion Occuring in the Soft X-rays Range in Lithium-Like Aluminium Ions
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    Chapter 53 3-Photon Excitation of Xenon and Frequency Tripling by Non-Linear Effect
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    Chapter 54 A Compact Resistively Stabilized Excimer Laser for Injection- and Mode-Locking Applications
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    Chapter 55 Atmospheric Turbulence Simulation Cell for Optical Propagation Experiment
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    Chapter 56 Analysis of Waveguide Systems for Transmitting and Shaping Infrared Radiation
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    Chapter 57 Resonators for High Power Lasers
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    Chapter 58 Aberrations in Laser Beam Expanders Due to Tilt of Input Beam
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    Chapter 59 Mirrors and Windows for High-Energy Lasers: The Wavefront Distortion Problem
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    Chapter 60 An Analysis of Optical Resonators with Tapered-Reflectivity Mirrors
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    Chapter 61 Experimental and Theoretical Investigations of CO 2 -GDL with a High Hydrogen Content
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    Chapter 62 Effects of Injection Hole in Concave Mirror of Unstable Resonator with Saturable Gain
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    Chapter 63 Analytical Model of Optical Cavity for a Gasdynamic Laser
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    Chapter 64 Production of Gram Quantities of Highly Enriched Carbon-12 by Selective Infrared Dissociation
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    Chapter 65 Application of Mathematical Heat Transfer Analysis to High Power CO 2 Laser Material Processing
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    Chapter 66 A Powerful CW CO 2 -Oscillator-Amplifier System for Research and Material Processing
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    Chapter 67 Inert-Gas-Assisted Cutting of Low-Carbon Steel Sheets Using a High-Power Laser System
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    Chapter 68 Laser Parameters for Surface Treatments of Metals
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    Chapter 69 Laser Cutting of Bulk Steel (40 mm) Due to Guided Flow of Radiation and Reactive Gas in the Workpiece
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    Chapter 70 Oxygen Assisted Laser Cutting of Low Carbon Steel Sheets
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    Chapter 71 Broadening of CO 2 -Laser Beam during Its Propagation in Aerosol with Absorbing Solid Particles
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    Chapter 72 The Role of CO 2 -Laser Beam Divergence in Cloud Clearing
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    Chapter 73 On the Interaction of High-Power Laser Beam with Metal Targets
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    Chapter 74 Experimental Investigation of the Thermomechanical Effects Induced by a CO 2 Laser on Various Materials in a Rarefied Atmosphere
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    Chapter 75 Laser-Metal Interaction: The Gasdynamic of the Emitted Vapours
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    Chapter 76 Advanced Lightweight Nuclear Power Sources for Laser Beam Power Applications
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    Chapter 77 Hydrodynamic Perturbations in Radiation-Induced Vaporization of Metals
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    Chapter 78 Laser-Induced Flows in Aerosol
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    Chapter 79 Coherent Pump Dynamics and Pulse Evolution in Three-Level Superfluorescence and Control of Light by Light
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    Chapter 80 Evaluation of Laser Beam Profile Uniformity by Means of a Computerized Thermographic Method
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    Chapter 81 Hydrodynamical Models of Aerosol Induced Breakdown