Afterglow ground-state copper density behavior in kinetically enhanced copper vapor lasers

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 2275-2278

  Mildren, Richard P ^a   Withford, Michael J ^a   Brown, Daniel J W ^a   Carman, Robert J ^a   Piper, James A ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Copper materials devices; Density measurement; Gas lasers; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

COPPER VAPOR LASERS; KINETIC ENHANCEMENT METHOD;

COPPER; ELECTRONIC DENSITY OF STATES; GROUND STATE; HYDROGEN; INTERFEROMETRY; LASER MODES; LASER PULSES; METAL VAPOR LAMPS; NEON; PLASMAS; RELAXATION PROCESSES;

GAS LASERS;

EID: 0032302812     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.736089     Document Type: Article

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