Optical energy extraction from electron-beam-initiated H2–F2 mixtures
- 1 August 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 47 (8) , 3530-3532
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.323203
Abstract
An oscillator, based on electric discharge in an SF6‐H2 mixture and yielding 400‐nsec pulses, was used to probe an HF amplifying medium produced by electron‐beam initiation of H2‐F2 mixtures. The oscillator produced 17 lines of the P1, P2, and P3 transitions. The oscillator power density at the input to the amplifier was about 2×104 W/cm2 at the time the H2‐F2 mixture was initiated. The power gain of the amplifier was estimated to be 500. Results indicate that with 17 lines from the v′=1, v′=2, and v′=3 vibrational levels of HF, about 6% of the generated energy can be extracted by the oscillator beam. The results of the experiment have also beem compared with a model calculation.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
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