Abstract

The mechanism responsible for the beneficial effect of oxygen addition to room-temperature sealed-off CO-He-Xe CW gas lasers has been investigated. This has been carried out by observing the changes in gain, electron density, discharge voltage, and positive ion spectrum as O2 is added. It has been established that the gain a0(eff) is increased both because the electron density ne is increased, and because the gas heating decreased resulting in access to larger values of alpha 0(eff)/ne, but there is no need to postulate a change in the electron energy distribution. Finally, one self-consistent hypothesis is shown to explain the effect of O2 addition as well as that of xenon and krypton.

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