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  • ISBN-13: 9780819417091
  • Publisher: SPIE Press
  • Publication date: 1/1/1995
  • Series: Press Monographs
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 374

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Chapter 1. The pulsed space gas discharge 1
1.1 Introduction 1
1.2 The self-sustained space discharge 3
1.2.1 General considerations 3
1.2.2 Basic relationships 4
1.2.3 Self-sustained discharges in lasers 7
1.3 The non-self-sustained space discharge 10
1.3.1 General considerations 10
1.3.2 Basic relationships 11
1.3.3 Experimental results 13
1.4 Constriction of a pulsed space gas discharge 14
1.4.1 General description 14
1.4.2 Constriction of a self-sustained space discharge 15
1.4.3 Constriction of a non-self-sustained space discharge 17
1.4.4 Models of the space discharge constriction 19
Chapter 2. Use of charged-particle radiation for pumping gas lasers 27
2.1 Introduction 27
2.2 Explosive electron emission 28
2.2.1 Initiation of EEE 28
2.2.2 Principal EEE processes 30
2.2.3 EEE-based diodes 33
2.2.4 Types of cathode using EEE 35
2.3 Plasma electron sources 38
2.3.1 Principles of operation 38
2.3.2 PES designs 40
2.4 Other sources of charged particles 41
Chapter 3. Gas preionization by electromagnetic radiator 47
3.1 Introduction 47
3.2 Preionization by UV from a corona 48
3.3 Preionization by a spark 50
3.3.1 Spark gap configurations 50
3.3.2 Physics of UV preionization 52
3.4 Preionization by X-rays 56
3.5 Ionization by intense microwaves 59
Chapter 4. Laser gas pumping by an electron beam 65
4.1 The three-group model of the gas pumping 65
4.2 The pumping power spatial distribution 68
4.2.1 Principal characteristics of the energetic electron-gas interaction 68
4.2.2 The electron beam energy distribution in a gas gap 71
4.2.3 Injection of the electron beam energy into a gas discharge chamber 79
4.2.4 Multiside electron beam injection schemes 83
4.3 Gas ionization and excitation by the beam electrons 86
4.3.1 Monte Carlo ionization cascade simulation 86
4.3.2 The average generation energy of plasma particles 87
4.3.3 Energy partitioning in gas mixtures 89
4.3.4 The spatial distribution of the rate of plasma particle generation 93
4.4 Electron-beam-generated gas mixture plasma 94
4.4.1 The Boltzmann equation 94
4.4.2 Electron energy distribution function 98
4.4.3 The average energy of plasma electrons 99
4.4.4 The drift velocity of electrons in a gas mixture 100
4.4.5 The discharge energy distribution 102
4.4.6 Rate constants of the processes 105
Chapter 5. Mathematical modeling of high-pressure laser systems 109
5.1 Outline of the kinetic processes in CO2 lasers 109
5.2 Mathematical modeling the kinetic processes in CO2 laser oscillators and high-pressure amplifiers 114
5.3 Some results of numerical simulation of high-pressure laser systems 120
5.3.1 Smoothly tunable CO, lasers 120
5.3.2 Modeling the formation of radiation pulses at a high pumping level 122
5.3.3 Amplification of short signals 127
5.4 Calculation of the output parameters of the N, laser 130
5.4.1 Mathematical model 130
5.4.2 Numerical simulation 133
5.4.3 Increasing the radiation pulse length 135
Chapter 6. Pulsed electroionization CO, lasers 145
6.1 Designs and the ways for decreasing the laser dimensions 145
6.1.1 Introduction 145
6.1.2 Laser designs 147
6.1.3 Decreasing the laser overall dimensions 153
6.2 Energy input into the active medium 157
6.2.1 Background 157
6.2.2 The electron-beam-controlled non-self-sustained discharge 158
6.2.3 The discharge with ionization electron multiplication 159
6.2.4 The discharge initiated by an electron beam 160
6.2.5 Limitations for the energy input 162
6.3 Principal laser characteristics 166
6.3.1 Small-signal gain 166
6.3.2 Radiation energy and laser efficiency 168
6.4 Some special operation modes of pulsed electroionization CO2 lasers 172
6.4.1 Smoothly tunable lasers 172
6.4.2 Amplification of smoothly tunable signals 174
6.4.3 Generation of short radiation pulses 176
6.4.4 Repetitive electroionization CO, lasers 177
Chapter 7. TEA CO2 lasers 186
7.1 Introduction 186
7.2 Principal units of the TEA laser pumping, system 187
7.2.1 Electrode systems 187
7.2.2 Requirements for space-discharge-initiating systems 190
7.2.3 High-voltage pulse generators and the dynamics of energy absorption in the active medium 195
7.3 Principal characteristics of TEA lasers 199
7.3.1 Energy input into the gas 199
7.3.2 Laser radiation energy and efficiency 203
7.3.3 Small-signal gain 207
7.3.4 Time characteristics of the radiation 210
7.4 Influence of plasma chemical reactions on the active medium of a pulsed CO2 laser 212
7.4.1 The decrease in CO2 concentration 212
7.4.2 Degradation of the stability of a space discharge 216
7.4.3 Constriction of the space discharge 218
7.5 Versions of electric-discharge CO2 lasers 234
7.5.1 Repetitively pulsed CO2 lasers 234
7.5.2 CO2 lasers with a large cross section of the active medium 239
7.5.3 High-pressure active medium lasers 242
7.5.4 Hybrid CO2 lasers 244
Chapter 8. Exciplex lasers. General considerations. Lasers using electron-beam pumping and combined electron-beam/discharge pumping 256
8.1 Introduction 256
8.2 Physical processes in exciplex lasers 257
8.2.1 Spectral terms of exciplex molecules 257
8.2.2 Basic plasma processes resulting in the formation of exciplex molecules 259
8.2.3 Absorption in inert gas--halide mixtures 261
8.2.4 Basic processes in the active medium pumped by an electron beam 262
8.2.5 Basic processes in the active medium on combined pumping 264
8.3 Designs of exciplex lasers using electron accelerators 265
8.4 Energy, time, and spectral characteristics of exciplex lasers 268
8.5 High-power exciplex lasers 276
8.6 A 600-1 XeCl laser 278
Chapter 9. Electric-discharge exciplex lasers 286
9.1 Discharge characteristics 286
9.2 Electric circuits and designs of pumping systems 288
9.3 Technique of pumping electric-discharge exciplex lasers 293
9.3.1 Pumping by a fast discharge 293
9.3.2 The quasi-steady-state mode of pumping 294
9.3.3 The non-steady-state mode of excitation 298
9.3.4 Pumping with small halogen-carrier concentrations 303
9.3.5 The choice of a pumping mode and the laser efficiency 304
Chapter 10. Near-IR, visible, and near-UV pulsed gas lasers 310
10.1 The atomic xenon laser 311
10.2 The cadmium ion laser pumped by an electron beam 312
10.3 The laser operating through the self-contained transition of the nitrogen molecule 313
10.3.1 Characteristics of the electric-discharge nitrogen laser 313
10.3.2 The Ar-N, laser pumped by an electron beam 316
10.4 Lasers operating by the self-contained transitions of atoms and ions 316
10.4.1 General principles 317
10.4.2 Techniques of the production of atomic metal vapors 321
10.5 Lasers operating by self-contained transitions of metal atoms and ions. Limiting parameters 323
10.5.1 Lasing pulse repetition rate 324
10.5.2 The peak power of the laser pulse 331
10.5.3 Output energy density, pulse duration, and average output power 334
10.5.4 Efficiency 335
10.6 The copper vapor laser 338
10.6.1 Laser performance 339
10.6.2 Output parameters of the laser 343
10.7 PenningOs neon plasma laser 347
10.7.1 Kinetic processes 348
10.7.2 Prerequisites for inversion 348
10.7.3 Output amplitude-time and spectral characteristics 349
10.8 Pumping gas lasers by an electron beam formed in the gas 352
Subject Index 363
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