Phototriggering of a 1-J excimer laser using either UV or x rays
- 1 August 1987
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 62 (3) , 754-758
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.339728
Abstract
Photoswitching of a homogeneous 1-l discharge has been tested on a specially designed excimer laser by using either an x-ray beam or a KrF laser beam as a photoionization source. With x rays, a 1.4-J, 4×4-cm2, XeCl laser beam has been obtained with 1.7% efficiency and an impedance-matched 50-ns pulse-forming line directly connected to the electrodes. Since the output energy seems to rise monotonically as a function of electron–ion pair initial density, even better performances should be attainable with a more intense photoionization source.This publication has 20 references indexed in Scilit:
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