High-brightness Metal Vapour Lasers

V. M. Batenin, V. V. Buchanov, A. M. Boichenko, M. A. Kazaryan, I. I. Klimovskii, E. I. Molodykh

Introduction. The devices and methods of creating metal vapors. Excitation schemes and its effect on the characteristics of the generation of self-heating copper vapor lasers. Excitation blocks of lasers on self-terminating transitions of metal atoms. Repetitively pulsed lasers on self-terminating transitions of metal atoms. The results of analytical studies on laser self-terminating transitions of metal atoms. Numerical studies of pulsed metal vapor lasers. Numerical simulation of pulsed-periodic MVL considering the inhomogeneous distribution of the plasma parameters (heterogeneity level) cross section GDT. Modeling of copper vapor lasers. Lasers with a modified kinetics (kinetically enhanced lasers).