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Excimer lasers

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Tunable Lasers

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The development of excimer lasers in recent years has been extremely rapid. Output pulse powers of several GW, mean powers of 25 W, and repetition rates of > 1 kHz have been produced. Lasers have been developed whose spectral, spatial, and temporal characteristics are limited only by fundamental physical principles, and these lasers are now openng up new areas of non-linear optics. Excimer lasers, especially rare-gas halide lasers, will become increasingly important as a primary source of intense, tunable uv laser radiation.

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Henry, M., Hutchinson, R. (1992). Excimer lasers. In: Mollenauer, L.F., White, J.C., Pollock, C.R. (eds) Tunable Lasers. Topics in Applied Physics, vol 59. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-55571-4_2

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