Abstract
The authors report the development of an electric oxygen-iodine laser with higher output using a larger product of gain and gain length, . A factor of 4.4 increase in laser power output on the 1315 nm atomic iodine transition was achieved with a factor of 3 increase in gain length. is pumped using energy transferred from produced by flowing a gas mixture of through three coaxial geometry radio-frequency discharges. Continuous wave (CW) average total laser power of 481 W was extracted with .
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