Electron energy distribution and excitation rate calculation in a discharge in CO-He system
Abstract
The electron energy distribution function has been numerically determined from the Boltzmann equation for some typical discharge conditions in CO and its mixtures. Collisions of the second kind have also been incorporated in the equation and it is found that the consideration of the second kind of collisions is important when the upper states are highly excited. This is, indeed, the case for the laser active medium.
- Publication:
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Applied Physics Letters
- Pub Date:
- October 1974
- DOI:
- 10.1063/1.1655549
- Bibcode:
- 1974ApPhL..25..463W
- Keywords:
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- Electron Energy;
- Energy Distribution;
- Gas Discharges;
- Gas Mixtures;
- Laser Materials;
- Carbon Monoxide Lasers;
- Distribution Functions;
- Inelastic Scattering;
- Reaction Kinetics;
- Lasers and Masers