Gas lasers excited by a pulsed inductive discharge

Abstract

A pulsed transverse inductive discharge (PTID) is used to population inversion formation on the transitions in atoms and molecules. Excitation system producing an inductive discharge in gases under a pressure within a range from 0,1 to 1,0 atm has been created. The experimental study of spectral and temporal parameters of stimulated emission for active media on the Ne (585.3 nm), He (587.5, 667.8 nm), Ar (750.4 nm) atoms and XeF* (353 nm), XeCl *(308 nm) and KrF* (248 nm), molecules excited by an inductive transverse discharge was performed. Lasing on the transitions of fluorine atoms and nitrogen molecules are reported. The results of the experimental study of spectral, temporal, and energy parameters of fluorine (FI) and nitrogen inductive lasers are presented.