Evolution of excited and ground-state species during burst-mode excitation of a barium vapor laser

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1717-1726

  Mildren, Richard P ^a,b,c,d   Brown, Daniel J W ^a,e,f   Piper, James A ^a,g  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c Def Sci and Technol Organization   (United Kingdom)

^d Centre for Lasers and Applications   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^f Australian Institute of Physics   (Australia)

^g IEEE

Author keywords

Barium materials devices; Density measurement; Diffusion process; Gas lasers; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

AMBIPOLAR DIFFUSION; BARIUM VAPOR LASER; EXCITATION PHASE;

BARIUM; CARRIER CONCENTRATION; DIFFUSION IN GASES; IONIZATION; LASER PULSES; NEON;

GAS LASERS;

EID: 0031258884     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.631272     Document Type: Article

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