| Autor: |
Alan R. Hoskinson, Steven J. Davis, Jeffrey Hopwood, Wilson T. Rawlins, Kristin L. Galbally-Kinney |
| Rok vydání: |
2014 |
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| Zdroj: |
High Energy/Average Power Lasers and Intense Beam Applications VII. |
| ISSN: |
0277-786X |
| Popis: |
The optically pumped rare-gas metastable laser is a chemically inert analogue to diode-pumped alkali (DPAL) and alkali-exciplex (XPAL) laser systems. Scaling of these devices requires efficient generation of electronically excited metastable atoms in a continuous-wave electric discharge in flowing gas mixtures at atmospheric pressure. This paper describes initial investigations of the use of linear microwave micro-discharge arrays to generate metastable rare-gas atoms at atmospheric pressure in optical pump-and-probe experiments for laser development. Power requirements to ignite and sustain the plasma at 1 atm are low |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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