Fast plasma mixing - A new excitation method for CW gas lasers
Abstract
'Fast plasma mixing' is proposed as a method to generate population inversions on electronic transitions for continuous lasers. Selective excitation is accomplished by preparing collision partners for excitation in two or more separate beams. Excitation in a well-defined reaction volume and a fast flow in combination with a suitable resonator will allow the fast removal of decay products from the active volume. This pumping method will allow the operation of new CW laser systems not possible with conventional discharges and CW operation of laser systems, which at this time can only be operated as pulsed lasers. A test device has been used to study the proposed excitation method. CW operation as a fluorine laser has demonstrated the general feasibility of this method.
- Publication:
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IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics
- Pub Date:
- October 1986
- DOI:
- 10.1109/JQE.1986.1072887
- Bibcode:
- 1986IJQE...22.2022S
- Keywords:
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- Continuous Wave Lasers;
- Electron Plasma;
- Excitation;
- Gas Discharges;
- Gas Lasers;
- Population Inversion;
- Electron Transitions;
- Energy Transfer;
- Fluorine;
- Mixing;
- Lasers and Masers