Author(s)

Mahboobeh Mirzaei¹, Saeid Behrouzinia^2*, Masoud Sabaghi², Saeid Marjani³, Kamran Khorasani², Batool Sajad¹

¹Department of Physics, Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran.
²Laser and Optics Research School, Nuclear Science and Technology Research School, Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, Tehran, Iran.
³Department of Electrical Engineering, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran.

In order to investigate the effect of the pressure buffer gas and frequency on the output power, a copper vapor laser with active medium length of 60 cm and bore of 16 mm has been operated and optimized using air as a buffer gas. The observed oscillatory behavior of the output power versus frequency is in good agreement with the previous reports. The measured results show the maximum output power of ~1.6W at the optimum pressure of 3.8 torr and frequency of 17 kHz. Abundance of the air and reduction of the system volume due to elimination of the gas handling system as well as the economically benefits are the advantages of the employing air as a buffer gas in the copper vapor laser operation.

Experimental Optimization, Copper Vapor Laser, Air Buffer Gas

Mirzaei, M. , Behrouzinia, S. , Sabaghi, M. , Marjani, S. , Khorasani, K. and Sajad, B. (2016) Experimental Optimization of the Output Power of a Copper Vapor Laser Using Air as a Buffer Gas. Optics and Photonics Journal, 6, 53-59. doi: 10.4236/opj.2016.64008.