%0 Book Section
%T Beam quality of TEA CO_2 laser pulses: Influence of the gas mixture and of intracavity apertures
publisher SPIE--The International Society for Optical Engineering
%D 1996
%U 0-8194-2267-3
%@ https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/60735
%X We investigate from both a theoretical and an experimental point of view the dependence of the spatial parameters (integrated along the pulse length) of TEA CO_2 laser pulses on the presence of nitrogen in the gas mixture and also on the size of an intracavity diaphragm used to attenuate higher-order modes.
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