Murray, G.A. and Smith, A.L.S. (1982) Plasma kinetic effects of nitrogen and hydrogen addition to carbon-monoxide laser discharges. Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 15 (11). pp. 2125-2133. ISSN 0022-3727
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The effects of the additive gases nitrogen and hydrogen on the gain, electron density, discharge voltage and positive-ion spectra of the plasmas of room-temperature sealed-off CO-He-Xe gas laser mixtures have been examined. Hydrogen affects the electron kinetics little, but its addition is always detrimental because the vibrationally excited CO is relaxed by V-T collisions. The effect of nitrogen is more complex; there is a beneficial CO-N2 vibrational pumping channel and a detrimental effect due to increased discharge voltage and hence gas heating. It is not a necessary additive for high-power laser operation.
| Item type: | Article |
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| ID code: | 17831 |
| Keywords: | electric discharges, gas lasers, rotational and vibrational energy transfer, plasmas, Plasma physics. Ionized gases |
| Subjects: | Science > Physics > Plasma physics. Ionized gases |
| Department: | Faculty of Science > Physics |
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| Depositing user: | Strathprints Administrator |
| Date Deposited: | 06 May 2010 19:56 |
| Last modified: | 07 Mar 2011 22:14 |
| URI: | http://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/17831 |
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