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High-pressure CO₂ laser with a nonself-sustaining discharge ionized by repetitively pulsed UV radiation

E. A. Muratov, V. D. Pis'mennyi, A. T. Rakhimov


Abstract: Lasing was obtained in a high-pressure CO₂ laser (250 Torr) in a periodic nonself-sustaining discharge regime controlled by UV radiation spark sources. It was shown that the use of pulse-periodic UV radiation sources enables a quasicontinuous laser operating regime to be set up.

UDC: 621.373.826

PACS: 42.55.Dk

Received: 09.06.1978

 English version: Soviet Journal of Quantum Electronics, 1979, 9:2, 219–220