Computer modeling of gas lasers
Abstract
The book offers an extensive in-depth examination of gas kinetics, excitation processes, hydrodynamics, and other important aspects of gas lasers with specialization to CO2. Almost every area of modeling discussed includes a standard description of an appropriate computer program. Most of the theory discussed is readily applicable to other gas systems. The discussion covers relaxation phenomena in gases, vibrational kinetics, electron excitation rates, rotational kinetics, a general plasma model, plasma chemistry models of gas lasers, stability analysis of laser plasmas, the Haas approximation to the general model, devices (unstable optical resonators, waveguide lasers, FIR gas lasers), and injection locking.
- Publication:
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NASA STI/Recon Technical Report A
- Pub Date:
- November 1978
- Bibcode:
- 1978STIA...7934508S
- Keywords:
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- Carbon Dioxide Lasers;
- Computerized Simulation;
- Electron Transitions;
- Gas Lasers;
- Mathematical Models;
- Molecular Excitation;
- Computer Programs;
- Injection Locking;
- Laser Plasmas;
- Magnetohydrodynamic Stability;
- Molecular Oscillations;
- Molecular Relaxation;
- Molecular Rotation;
- Reaction Kinetics;
- Lasers and Masers