Laser action in a lead hollow cathode discharge and its excitation mechanism
Abstract
An experiment in which CW or afterglow laser action was stimulated in a lead hollow cathode discharge is reported. Analysis of the results shows that two metastable states of the Pb atom play an important part in the excitation process. Measurement of laser line wavelengths was conducted with such accuracy that previous discrepancies in the assignment of transition levels can be eliminated.
- Publication:
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Optics Communications
- Pub Date:
- March 1981
- Bibcode:
- 1981OptCo..36..387L
- Keywords:
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- Afterglows;
- Continuous Wave Lasers;
- Gas Discharges;
- Hollow Cathodes;
- Lead (Metal);
- Metal Vapor Lasers;
- Atomic Energy Levels;
- Atomic Excitations;
- Electron Transitions;
- Fluorescence;
- Lasing;
- Metal Ions;
- Metastable State;
- Stimulated Emission;
- Lasers and Masers