Photon emission and photoionization measurements in the CO2 laser environment

1 May 1976

journal article
research article
Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters

Vol. 28 (9) , 487-489
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.88854

Abstract

Recent monochromator measurements of the photon emission and volume photoionization produced by a simple spark source within the laser gas environment are presented. Nitrogen gas is seen to dominate the ultraviolet radiation generated while carbon dioxide is shown to control the photon transmittance in the laser volume. The data clearly identify two narrow photon bands as the only useful portions, of the spark emission spectrum, in the production of volume ionization.

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