Re: HV + laser beams

To: tesla-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com
Subject: Re: HV + laser beams
From: Tesla List <tesla-at-stic-dot-net>
Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 16:35:44 -0500
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Subject:  Re: HV + laser beams
  Date:   Wed, 21 May 1997 04:48:27 +0500
  From:   "Alfred A. Skrocki" <alfred.skrocki-at-cybernetworking-dot-com>
    To:   Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>


On Tue, 20 May 1997 11:36:07 -0600 (MDT) JACK HERRON
<JHERRON-at-BASIX.COM> wrote;

>         If I might intrude a bit here, the term power is being a bit
> mis-interpreted.  The smallest nitrogen gas laser emits its power in 8
> nano-second self-saturating and extinguishing bursts of 50 to 100
> kilowatts of peak optical power.  The gas will not lase while warm,
> so time must pass while the gas filling either cools, or is swept out
> of the cavity.  Such a laser emits a train of pulses of high power,
> separated by much longer times of no power.  It IS correct to refer to
> such a device as emitting a few watts of AVERAGE power, but it is easy
> to let such a specification conceal the fact that the ionization (which
> must occur to provide a conduction path) is being created by very high
> power pulses.

Very good point Jack! I was looking at the comparison of average 
power of the U.V. laser vrs. the much higher energy levels that 
would be required with non-ionizing wavelengths of light, if indeed 
it could be done at any power level with non-ionizing wavelengths.

 
                               Sincerely

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