Coherent, Inc.

Vern Seguin

John T Kennedy

Peter Rosenthal

David J Allie

In order to maintain a constant laser output pulse power in a RF-energized, sealed-off, diffusion cooled, pulsed, COgas-discharge laser, each laser output pulse is generated by train or burst of shorter RF pulses. When the time between laser output pulses becomes short enough that the power in one pulse would be reduced by gas-discharge heating effects of a previous pulse, power in the RF pulse trains is varied by varying the duration or duty cycle of pulses in the bursts, thereby keeping output-pulse power in the laser output pulses constant. RF pulses in any burst can have a different duration for tailoring the temporal shape of a corresponding laser-output pulse.

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Windsor, CT, United States of America

Vern Seguin