Abstract
The inverted susceptibility is used as a figure of merit to discuss the maser properties of Cr-TiO <inf xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2</inf> at <tex xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">L</tex> -band frequencies. This material has the advantage of a high inversion ratio and narrow linewidth resulting in a gain per unit length 10 to 25 times larger than for ruby in the liquid helium temperature range. The optimum concentration of Cr <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">3+</sup> is found to be around 0. 016 percent from measured data at 1.4 Gc/s. The gain calculated from the figure of merit agrees with measurements on an actual 1.4 Gc/s traveling-wave maser. The decrease in inversion ratio with increasing Cr <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">3+</sup> concentration is an important factor which determines the behavior of the figure of merit. This variation is shown to be consistent with calculations based on a simplified spin-lattice relaxation model.
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