ANALYSIS ON THE STEADY-STATE AMPLIFICATION OF ARF AND KRF DISCHARGE LASERS

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WATANABE, S [1 ]
OBARA, A [1 ]
SATO, T [1 ]
KASHIWAGI, H [1 ]
ENDOH, A [1 ]
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[1] TOKYO INST TECHNOL,DEPT ENERGY SCI,MEGURO KU,TOKYO 152,JAPAN
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10.1063/1.91152
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O59 [应用物理学];
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The saturation behavior of the steady-state amplification of discharge-pumped ArF and KrF lasers have been analyzed by numerical calculation taking into account absorption, spontaneous decay, and pumping. This analysis predicts the noticeable pulse-width broadening due to amplification in good agreement with experiments. The small-signal-gain g0 and absorption coefficients a were determined simultaneously by the best fits of experimental saturation curves to numerically calculated ones with the results of g 0=3.5%/cm and a=0.2%/cm for the ArF laser and g0=5.0%/cm and a=0.4%/cm for the KrF laser under the investigated conditions.
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