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Kvantovaya Elektronika, 1975 Volume 2, Number 11, Pages 2536–2537 (Mi qe12145)

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Condensation of water vapor in a gasdynamic CO2 laser

A. B. Britan, N. M. Kortsenshtein


Abstract: A calculation is made of the parameters of a laser mixture flowing out of a planar slit-like nozzle. A system of equations describing the gasdynamics of the flow and the kinetics of the condensation of water vapor from a mixture is solved numerically by the Runge–Kutta method. An estimate is obtained of the influence of condensate droplets on the kinetics of collisional deactivation of the upper laser-active level of the CO2 molecule. The results obtained are compared with the experimental values of the gain.

UDC: 539.196:541.182.2/3

PACS: 42.60.Cz

Received: 30.05.1975


 English version:
Soviet Journal of Quantum Electronics, 1975, 5:11, 1388–1389


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