High-power electron beam preionized CO2 CW laser modelling. I - Description of the investigated device and numerical calculations on e-beam ionization
Abstract
This paper - devoted to modelling high-power CW lasers - gives a brief description of the investigated device and uses an analytical approximation to Bethe's formula to calculate the following quantities - the space profiles in the discharge chamber of the electron beam energy, the stopping power and the source term under operating conditions for four-component mixtures of practical interest. The energy loss of the primary beam in travelling through a thin Al foil is calculated.
- Publication:
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Nuovo Cimento B Serie
- Pub Date:
- November 1979
- DOI:
- 10.1007/BF02908228
- Bibcode:
- 1979NCimB..54...99M
- Keywords:
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- Carbon Dioxide Lasers;
- Continuous Wave Lasers;
- Electron Beams;
- Electron Pumping;
- Gas Ionization;
- High Power Lasers;
- Numerical Analysis;
- Electron Energy;
- Energy Dissipation;
- Gas Discharge Tubes;
- Gas Mixtures;
- Laser Outputs;
- Lasing;
- Power Gain;
- Stopping Power;
- Lasers and Masers