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VOLUME 21 (1975) | ISSUE 1 | PAGE 74
Effect of deuterium on the operation of a CO2 TEA laser
We describe experiments that show that addition of deuterium greatly improves the characteristics of the working mixtures in a C02 laser. In the case of mixtures containing nitrogen, addition of deuterium has made is possible to increase the output laser energy by 22%. In the case of mixtures that contain no nitrogen, replacement of the helium by deuterium leads to an increase of the output energy by 3-4 times with a negligible change in the pulse duration.