Soft x-ray laser pumped by charge exchange between C VII and Ar III in expanding laser-produced plasma
- 1 September 1977
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 48 (9) , 3691-3696
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.324282
Abstract
A soft x-ray laser with wavelength 182 Å is proposed. The pumping mechanism is charge exchange between C VII and Ar III which occurs when a laser-produced carbon plasma expands into an argon background gas. Electron pickup is primarily into the n=3 level of C VI, and the laser transition is the Balmer-α line. Nd-glass radiation is converted into 182 Å radiation with efficiency of order 1%.This publication has 25 references indexed in Scilit:
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