Plasma dynamic lasers - Problems and perspectives
Abstract
A plasmadynamic laser is defined as a gasdynamic laser in which the lasing gas flow of molecules has been substituted by a lasing plasma flow of atoms or ions. Attention is given to various aspects of the plasmadynamic laser including the kinetics of the expanding plasma, population inversion, the thermalizing effect with increasing electron density and quantum number, and high and low ionic charge numbers.
- Publication:
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Luft und Raumfahrt
- Pub Date:
- 1976
- Bibcode:
- 1976LR..........57B
- Keywords:
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- Electron Density (Concentration);
- Gasdynamic Lasers;
- Magnetohydrodynamic Flow;
- Plasma Heating;
- Population Inversion;
- Adiabatic Conditions;
- Argon Plasma;
- Gas Expansion;
- Steady State;
- Thermalization (Energy Absorption);
- Lasers and Masers