On the electron-beam pumped KrF laser
- 1 March 1984
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 55 (5) , 1299-1307
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.333218
Abstract
The paper deals with the complex kinetics of excitation, quenching, and absorption in an electron-beam pumped KrF laser. The effect of the pressure dependence of the ionic recombination rates, the role of the metastables, and the formation of ArKr+ are investigated and compared with our experimental results. From the model the maximum power density together with the optimized densities of argon, krypton, and fluorine are calculated as a function of the beam-current-to-outcoupling ratio. Finally, the pressure dependencies of the individual components near the optimized conditions are investigated.This publication has 17 references indexed in Scilit:
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