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Ultimate efficiency of nuclear-pumped gas lasers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2009

Sergei P. Melnikov  and
Anatolii A. Sinyanskii
Sergei P. Melnikov
Affiliation:
All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Experimental Physics, 607200 Arzamas, Nizhni Novgorod Region, Russia
Anatolii A. Sinyanskii
Affiliation:
All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Experimental Physics, 607200 Arzamas, Nizhni Novgorod Region, Russia
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Abstract

We suggest several cascade lasing schemes: (1) cascade of laser transitions between atom (ion) excited levels when the lower laser level of one laser transition is simultaneously the upper laser level of another transition located below; (2) successive lasing, first, on ion transitions, then after ion recombination on atom transitions; (3) while using multicomponent mixtures, successive lasing on atoms (ions) of separate components. These possibilities are discussed in terms of specific lasers, some of which have been studied experimentally.

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Research Article
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Laser and Particle Beams , Volume 11 , Issue 4 , December 1993 , pp. 645 - 654
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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