Heterophase mechanisms of thermal oxidation of polymers. New horizons

Abstract

It is found that a long conventional c\v CO1 laser cannot be tuned selectively because of the multidirectional modes formed through reflections at grazing angles from the inner walls of the discharge tubes. This problem has been overcome by inserting a number of properly designed mode-selecting apertures right into the discharge tubes and selective tuning over more than l50 rotational lines in both P and R branches of three vlbrational bands (9.6.10.6 and 11.2 pm) has been achieved. The rotational lines of higher/-values that have a low gain tend to lase in the TE\l,o mode. In the R branch two consecutive lines are observed to lase simultaneously when the angular width of the active medium subtended at the grating allow the existence of two physically tilted beams of different wavelengths dispersed by the grating used. The output poser distribution over various lines almost follows that of the gain. The optimum design parameters of a long c\v CO, laser for tuning are obtained.