Recombination lasing in a magnetoplasmadynamic arcjet
- 1 January 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 51 (1) , 109-117
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.327402
Abstract
The plasmadynamic recombination laser concept is verified experimentally in a high‐power quasisteady MPD arcjet operating at 4 kA and 12 g/sec of argon. Measurements of the spatial variation of electron temperature, electron density, and population densities in the arc exhaust flow confirm that inverted populations of the 4p to 4s Ar II transitions are established by collisional‐radiative recombination of the Ar III ion. Using an optical cavity aligned transversely to the flow, recombination lasing of seven such transitions, 5145, 4880, 4764, 4727, 4658, 4579, and 4545 Å, is observed spectrophotograpically and photoelectrically over the entire 1‐msec discharge.This publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit:
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