High-gain inner-shell photoionization laser in Cd vapor pumped by soft-X-ray radiation from a laser-produced plasma source
Abstract
A soft-X-ray-pumped inner-shell photoionization laser has been produced in Cd vapor at 4416 and 3250 A. A gain of 5.6 per cm has been measured at 4416 A, and a reasonably high-energy storage of 0.2 mJ/cu cm in the upper laser states has been obtained.
- Publication:
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Optics Letters
- Pub Date:
- November 1983
- Bibcode:
- 1983OptL....8..551M
- Keywords:
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- Cadmium;
- High Gain;
- Infrared Lasers;
- Metal Vapor Lasers;
- Photoionization;
- Pumping;
- X Rays;
- Energy Conversion Efficiency;
- High Power Lasers;
- Laser Plasmas;
- Plasma Radiation;
- Population Inversion;
- Pulsed Lasers;
- Yag Lasers;
- Lasers and Masers