Chemical oxygen-iodine laser with CO 2 buffer gas

• Published in: Applied physics letters Vol. 89; no. 5; pp. 051115 - 051115-3
• Main Authors: Antonov, I. O., Azyazov, V. N., Mezhenin, A. V., Popkov, G. N., Ufimtsev, N. I.
• Format: Journal Article
• Published: American Institute of Physics 04-08-2006
• ISSN: 0003-6951; 1077-3118
• DOI: 10.1063/1.2222405

The efficient power operation in a chemical oxygen-iodine laser for subsonic and supersonic modes has been demonstrated. It is shown that the substitution of the buffer gas
N
2
by
C
O
2
does not cause any significant variation in the dependence of the output power on the degree of dilution of the active medium. The maximum power was
581
W
for the flow rate of molecular chlorine
22
mMol
∕
s
that corresponds to a chemical efficiency of
η
chem
=
29
%
.