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Lasers and amplifiers

The role of optical transitions between ionic and Rydberg states in a KrF laser

V. V. Datsyuk

National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv, Faculty of Physics

Abstract: The upper laser level of a KrF laser is treated as a cluster containing several hundreds vibration-rotation energy levels of the electronic state B, which is mixed due to collisions with the close ionic state C. The KrF (C) state is depleted as a result of optical transitions to a higher Rydberg state. This model explains the experimental data on the picosecond dynamics of the light amplification. The possibility of using a KrF laser as an amplifier of radiation with a wavelength of 120 nm is discussed.

PACS: 42.55.Lt, 42.60.Lh, 33.20.Wr

Received: 09.11.2000
Revised: 19.02.2001

 English version: Quantum Electronics, 2001, 31:5, 401–406

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