Prototype TEA nitrogen laser energized by a high voltage electrical discharge

What is it about?

The present study reports design and construction, of a prototype of Transversely Excited Atmospheric (TEA) nitrogen laser, and a high voltage power supply to excite N2 gas in air, while air is used as an active lasing medium. A Blumlein line discharge circuit is used for opera- tion of this laser. The high voltage is generated by a fly back transformer based power supply vary- ing from 10 kV to 20 kV. The wavelength (337.1 nm) of TEA nitrogen laser is measured employing a standard commercial spectrometer and the laser output energy of 300 uJ is measured from the constructed system.

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the design and construction, of a prototype of Transversely Excited Atmospheric (TEA) nitrogen laser, and a high voltage power supply to excite N2 gas in air, while air is used as an active lasing medium.