• DocumentCode
    1129194
  • Title

    The influence of CO and CO2laser performance

  • Author

    Brinkschulte, Hermann W.

  • Author_Institution
    Institute for Exploratory Research, U. S. Army Electronics COmmand, Fort Monmouth, NJ, USA
  • Volume
    4
  • Issue
    11
  • fYear
    1968
  • fDate
    11/1/1968 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    948
  • Lastpage
    953
  • Abstract
    Impurities are necessary to achieve considerable CW laser action in CO2since in pure CO2the disintegration of the lower laser level is too slow to maintain a substantial population inversion. The dissociation product CO, provided by the discharge itself if initially pure CO2is used in a sealed system, enhances the gain mainly because of its effectiveness in accelerating the relaxation of the first level of the bending mode to which the lower laser level relaxes. The characteristic time for energy exchange between these two levels is 20 \\pm 5 \\mu s at 1 torr, 400°K. Experiments in He-CO2mixtures support the assumption that the main influence of CO is to accelerate the decomposition of the lower laser level.
  • Keywords
    Acceleration; Electrons; Energy exchange; Gas lasers; Helium; Laser excitation; Laser modes; Laser transitions; Temperature; Thermal conductivity;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9197
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/JQE.1968.1074958
  • Filename
    1074958
    • Link To Document
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