Influence of electron-F2 collisions in rare gas–halide laser discharges
- 1 March 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 32 (5) , 297-300
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.90027
Abstract
The influence of F2 vibrational excitation and direct dissociation by electron impact is examined for conditions typical of electron‐beam‐sustained KrF* lasers. For values of F2 fractional concentration greater than about 0.003 the results of this analysis indicate that the dissociation process e+F2→2F+e may significantly affect electron‐metastable atom production efficiency, rare gas–halide excimer production efficiency, and gain.Keywords
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