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Review

Excited states in the active media of oxygen — iodine lasers

V. N. Azyazov

Samara Branch of P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences

Abstract: A review of investigations of kinetic processes in active media oxygen — iodine lasers (OILs) performed in the last decade is presented. The mechanisms of pumping and quenching of electronically and vibrationally excited O₂ and I₂ molecules are considered, and dissociation mechanisms of I₂ in the active medium of the OIL are analysed. The values of kinetic constants of processes proceeding in the active media of OILs are recommended.

PACS: 42.55.Ks, 33.50.-j, 82.20.-w

Received: 28.11.2008
Revised: 03.07.2009

 English version: Quantum Electronics, 2009, 39:11, 989–1007

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