Coupling between the discharge plasma instability and the laser oscillation in a He-Cd laser
Abstract
The investigation of the output of a He-Cd laser with electrically floating hollow electrodes shows that the discharge plasma instability plays an important role in the generation of the population inversion. The experimental evidence is presented and a qualitative interpretation is given by considering the plasma instability as equivalent to a radio frequency component of the discharge voltage.
- Publication:
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Beitraege Plasmaphysik
- Pub Date:
- 1986
- Bibcode:
- 1986BePl...26..185C
- Keywords:
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- Gas Lasers;
- Laser Plasma Interactions;
- Laser Stability;
- Metal Vapor Lasers;
- Plasma Jets;
- Cadmium;
- Coupling;
- Helium;
- Plasma Oscillations;
- Population Inversion;
- Radio Frequencies;
- Lasers and Masers