The effect of addition of buffer gases on the output energy and pulse width of ammonia laser

Abstract EN

We present the design of a pulsed ammonia laser, which is optically pumped by a TEA C02 laser.

The ettect of addition of buffer gases to the ammonia gas laser (such as N2, He and Are with different mixing ratios) on the output energy and pulse width of the laser was studied^ It Was found that Nj gas was preferable among the other additives as it Provides highest output pulse energy and increasing the laser efficiency.

The addition^N2 gas helped also in obtaining more than 40 ammonia laser lines around the l^rn, which was step tunable in the spectral range of (762-968 cm'1