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Lasers. Active media

The effect of temperature on the creation of population inversion in the active media of electric-discharge CO₂ lasers

V. V. Nevdakh

B. I. Stepanov Institute of Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk

Abstract: It is shown that population inversion can be created on the 00⁰1–10⁰0 transition in the active medium of an electric-discharge CO₂ laser even if its temperature increases to ~1200 K. By retaining the discharge stability and increasing the selectivity of the upper level pumping, it is possible to build electric-discharge CO₂ lasers without water cooling.

PACS: 42.55.Lt

Received: 23.08.2000
Revised: 25.02.2001

 English version: Quantum Electronics, 2001, 31:6, 525–528

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