Electroionization laser using metastable xenon atoms
Abstract
A new approach is proposed for developing high-power gas lasers which operate at atomic transitions. The idea is to pump the working levels by an externally sustained electroionization discharge from highly excited metastable states produced in the active medium by an external source. An output energy of more than 50 J at the wavelength 1.73 microns has been achieved from an Ar:Xe laser with an active-medium volume of 10 liters.
- Publication:
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ZhETF Pisma Redaktsiiu
- Pub Date:
- May 1984
- Bibcode:
- 1984ZhPmR..39..426B
- Keywords:
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- Electron Beams;
- Electron Pumping;
- Electron Transitions;
- Gas Ionization;
- Gas Lasers;
- Metastable Atoms;
- Argon Lasers;
- Electric Discharges;
- Laser Pumping;
- Xenon;
- Lasers and Masers