Characteristics of pulsed discharges in copper bromide and copper HyBrID lasers

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 919-925

  Isaev, Anatolii A ^a,c,d   Jones, David R ^b   Little, Chris E ^b,e   Petrash, Gueorgii G ^a   Whyte, Colin G ^b   Zemskov, Konstantin I ^a  

^a LEBEDEV PHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^c MOSCOW INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^d Laboratory of Physical Optics   (Russian Federation)

^e IEEE

Author keywords

Ges lasers; Pulsed lasers

Indexed keywords

AGENTS; DISSOCIATION; ELECTRIC DISCHARGES; ELECTRIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; ELECTRONS; HYDROGEN; LASER PULSES; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

DISCHARGE ELECTRICAL WAVEFORMS;

GAS LASERS;

EID: 0031162175     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.585494     Document Type: Article

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