Electron-beam spreading and its effect on sustainer current and field distribution in CO2 lasers
- 1 June 1974
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 45 (6) , 2609-2613
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1663637
Abstract
An electron‐beam‐initiated high‐pressure CO2 laser discharge is investigated. It is assumed that initially the discharge current flows along the vacuum electric field direction. The resulting distortion of the electric field is calculated by a linearization of the continuity equation. We have computed the solution for the special case of a finite electron beam and infinite planar electrodes. The predicted variation of the sustainer current and distortions of the applied voltage are compared with experimental results.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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