Method for reducing the longitudinal voltage variation in transverse radio-frequency discharge waveguide lasers

With optimal inductors shunted at the end of the transverse radio-frequency (rf) discharge waveguide laser, the longitudinal voltage variation across a waveguide channel can be reduced. If multiple inductors are shunted at the appropriate positions, an almost perfect rf uniformity may be attained. All the optimum inductances are derived from the conventional transmission line theory.