Gas Flow and Chemical Lasers

Invited Lectures.- Chemically Pumped Electronic Transition Lasers.- Optical Resonance Transfer Lasers for Mode Control.- Optical Phase Conjugation in Laser Resonators.- Laser Material Processing.- The Oxygen-Iodine Chemical Laser.- Air Force Laser Research.- Flow Laser Diagnostic Techniques.- Pulsed-Laser/Material Interaction.- Chemical Lasers.- Numerical Solutions of Complete and Reduced Navier-Stokes Equations for Supersonic Chemical Laser Flow Modeling.- A Pulsed, Multi-Kilohertz-Repetition-Rate, Supersonic HF Chemical Laser.- Saturation Processes in Doppler-Broadened HF Vibrational Transition.- Enhanced Mixing in CO-Flowing Laminar Streams.- Experimental Study of the Spectral Output of a DF-Laser.- Operation of Small Scale,Efficient Chemical Oxygen-Iodine Laser and Study of the Reaction of O2(1?) with Pb Atoms.- A New Numerical Method for Turbulent Mixing of Supersonic Reacting Flows in Chemical Laser Cavities.- Theoretical and Experimental Study of cw HF Chemical Laser Performance.- Propagation Velocity of the Ionization Front Driven by a High-Current Relativistic E-Beam Through the Active Laser Media of Increased Pressure.- Time Resolved Spectra and Small Signal Gain in HF: An Experimental and Theoretical Investigation.- Quasi One-Dimensional Model of a Ring Diffusion cw Chemical Laser and some of its Applications.- Flowfield Diagnostic of Supersonic cw HF Chemical Laser by Using Improved LIF and Chemiluminescence Methods.- Gasdynamic Lasers.- Rapid Expansion Nozzles for Gasdynamic Lasers.- Turbulence Measurement in the Flow of a CO2 LEDA type Laser.- Subsonic TE N2-CO Mixing Laser.- Numerical Estimations of 16 ?m CO2 Gasdynamic Lasers with Various Contours of 2-Dimensional Nozzles.- On Simple Estimation of Characteristics for CO2/N2 Mixing Gasdynamic Laser.- Aerodynamic Disturbances from Supersonic Nozzle Arrays.- Modeling of 16 ?m CO2 Gasdynamic Laser in Intracavity Cascading Mode.- Development of a Closed-Cycle CW TE CO Laser Operating in the Temperature Region 100-300 K.- Microwave Excited Gasdynamic CO2-Laser.- Screen Nozzle Mixing Laser Calculations.- Theoretical Design of Mixing Gasdynamic Lasers.- Two Simplified Models and their Application to Performance Study of Mixing Gasdynamic Lasers.- High Averaged Power Systems.- Photoionization of CO2 and CO Laser Media Containing Low-Ionization-Potential NO-NO2 Admixtures.- High Power Blackbody Pumped CO2 Lasers.- A Novel Command Charging System for High Repetition-Rate Pulsed Discharge Lasers.- Flow Effects on the Laser Power of Transverse Flow TE Lasers.- Flow Characteristics of Closed Loop High PRF E-Beams or X-Ray Assisted Discharge Exciplex Laser.- A New 10 kW Industrial Carbon Dioxide Laser.- Further Development of the Non-Stationary Stochastic Model of Diffuse Electric Discharges in Turbulent Gas Flows.- The Effect of Chemical Processes on the Stratification of Volume-Dominated Gas Discharges.- A Study of Propagation of a Conducting Channel in the Plasma of a Non-self-Sustained Discharge.- Suppressing Attachment-Induced Instabilities by Operating Gas Discharges in an HF Mode.- Limiting Energy Inputs in the Non-Self-Sustained Discharge of a CO2-Flow Laser.- Subsonic Flow CO2 Laser With Transverse RF Excitation.- High-Repetition-Rate Long-Pulse-Discharge XeCl Laser Preionized by a Low-Density Electron or X-Rays Beam.- A Compact 75 Watts CO2 Laser at 750 Hertz.- New Laser Media.- Scaling Relations for the Plasma Recombination Laser.- Kinetic Study of the VUV Emissions of Ar-Kr Mixtures.- CW Ion-Argon-Lasers with the Supersonic Transverse Gas Flow.- Rovibrational State Population Distributions Calculated from Spontaneous Fluorescence Measurements for CO (v ? 4, J ? 10) in Highly Heated Supersonic Free Jets of CO in N2 and Ar.- A XeF-Excimer Laser Excited in a Longitudinal Discharge.- Population Inversion Occuring in the Soft X-Rays Range in Lithium-Like Aluminium Ions.- 3-Photon Excitation of Xenon and Frequency Tripling by Non-Linear Effect.- A Compact Resistively Stabilized Excimer Laser for Injection- and Mode-Locking Applications.- High Energy Optics. Adaptive Optics.- Atmospheric Turbulence Simulation Cell for Optical Propagation Experiment.- Analysis of Waveguide Systems for Transmitting and Shaping Infrared Radiation.- Resonators for High Power Lasers.- Aberrations in Laser Beam Expanders Due to Tilt of Input Beam.- Mirrors and Windows for High-Energy Lasers: the Wavefront Distortion Problem.- An Analysis of Optical Resonators with Tapered-Reflectivity Mirrors.- Experimental and Theoretical Investigations of CO2-GDL with a High Hydrogen Content.- Effects of Injection Hole in Concave Mirror of Unstable Resonator With Saturable Gain.- Analytical Model of Optical Cavity for a Gasdynamic Laser.- Material Processing and Applications.- Production of Gram Quantities of Highly Enriched Carbon-12 by Selective Infrared Dissociation.- Application of Mathematical Heat Transfer Analysis to High Power CO2 Laser Material Processing.- A Powerful cw CO2-Oscillator-Amplifier System for Research and Material Processing.- Inert-Gas-Assisted Cutting of Low-Carbon Steel Sheets Using a High Power-Laser System.- Laser Parameters for Surface Treatments of Metals.- Laser Cutting of Bulk Steel (40 mm) Due to Guided Flow of Radiation and Reactive Gas in the Workpiece.- Oxygen Assisted Laser Cutting of Low Carbon Steel Sheets.- Laser Propagation and Laser Matter Interaction.- Broadening of CO2-Laser Beam During its Propagation in Aerosol With Absorbing Solid Particles.- The Role of CO2-Laser Beam Divergence in Cloud Clearing.- On the Interaction of High-Power Laser Beam With Metal Targets.- Experimental Investigation of the Thermomechanical Effects Induced by a CO2 Laser on Various Materials in Rarefied Atmosphere.- Laser-Metal Interaction: The Gasdynamic of Emitted Vapours.- Advanced Lightweight Nuclear Power Sources for Laser Beam Power Applications.- Hydrodynamic Perturbations in Radiation-Induced Vaporization of Metals.- Laser-Induced Flows in Aerosol.- Coherent Pump Dynamics and Pulse Evolution in Three-Level Superfluorescence and Control of Light by Light.- Evaluation of Laser Beam Profile Uniformity by Means of a Computerized Thermographic Method.- Hydrodynamical Models of Aerosol Induced Breakdown.