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Using an appropriate design of electrodes and adjustment of the thyratron decoupling circuit as a high-repetition-rate and high-voltage switch, very stable operation of a copper vapor laser at high pressures was obtained. This was achieved by canceling the intense filamentation in the laser plasma at the higher pressures. The transverse grooves on the inner surface of the funnelshaped copper electrodes permit operation of the laser up to 100 torr. This design reduces the cathode-fall voltage, and as a result reduces the thermal loading in the cathode-fall region. The optimum pressure was 80 torr. At this condition the output power was more than that observed with expensive molybdenum electrodes in a similar laser system.

Design and construction of a high repetition rate low average power TEA CO2 laser with ultra violet pre ionization is presented. Replacing thyratron with a high voltage semiconductor switch and magnetic pulse compressor considering the highest peak power achievable is investigated. When using semiconductors as main switch of laser excitation circuit the output energy and laser power is lower about 5-10% relative to thyratron excitation circuit but the sealed off operation of laser is more uniform.Thyratron based excitation circuit Semiconductor based excitation circuit

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