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by gaze 3925 days ago
Can you talk a bit about the tube? Is it DC or RF excited? Who is making it?
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It's a custom glass DC tube with some cool engineering to improve the mode quality to TEM00, which gives us tighter spot size / higher power density. Similar effect to cranking up the power, except you also get tighter kerf and you don't have to make the tube longer.