Oxygen auroral transition laser system excited by collisional and photolytic energy transfer
Abstract
The properties of laser media involving the auroral transition of atomic oxygen and analogous systems are examined. A discussion of the atomic properties, collisional mechanisms, excitation processes, and collisionally induced radiative phenomena is given. Crossing phenomena play a particularly important role in governing the dynamics of the medium.
- Publication:
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NASA STI/Recon Technical Report N
- Pub Date:
- June 1975
- Bibcode:
- 1975STIN...7625551M
- Keywords:
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- Auroral Spectroscopy;
- Energy Transfer;
- Lasers;
- Oxygen;
- Atomic Collisions;
- Excitation;
- Photolysis;
- Lasers and Masers