Ionizing waves of potential gradient in a transversely excited N2 laser cavity
Abstract
The positions of maximum intensity in the beam cross section of transversely excited N2 lasers have been measured at different gas pressures for three types of laser channel. The results show that there is a nonuniformity in the population inversion in the interelectrode region, which is discussed in terms of ionizing waves of potential gradient.
- Publication:
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Applied Optics
- Pub Date:
- July 1982
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 1982ApOpt..21.2317L
- Keywords:
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- Gas Ionization;
- Laser Cavities;
- Molecular Excitation;
- Nitrogen Lasers;
- Population Inversion;
- Potential Gradients;
- Traveling Waves;
- Gas Discharges;
- Luminous Intensity;
- Lasers and Masers;
- LASERS: NITROGEN;
- PLASMAS