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Laser applications and other topics in quantum electronics

Optogalvanic effect in a self-terminating copper atomic laser

N. A. Yudin^a, V. M. Klimkin^b, V. E. Prokop'ev<sup>c

a</sup> Rzhanov Institute of Semiconductor Physics, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk
^b Institute of Atmospheric Optics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science, Tomsk
^c Institute of High Current Electronics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Tomsk

Abstract: The optogalvanic effect in a copper-vapour pulsed laser as well as the optothermal effects due to a hysteresis of the optogalvanic effect were observed for the first time. The generalised rate constant for the deexcitation of a resonant level to the ionisation state of the active medium was estimated to be $\langle\sigma \nu \rangle \sim (3\pm1)\cdot 10^{-7}см^3\cdot с^{-1}$.

PACS: 42.55.Lt, 42.60.Jf, 34.50.Fa

Received: 03.02.1999

 English version: Quantum Electronics, 1999, 29:9, 828–831

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