Argon laser quenching, dark spaces, and deexcitation mechanisms
- 1 August 1972
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 43 (8) , 3393-3396
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1661725
Abstract
A model for quenching of the ArII laser oscillation is presented that compares collisional and radiative deexcitation processes. High electron densities (1015 cm−3) in the quenching regime indicate that collisional effects mask the radiation-trapping mechanisms in a radially dependent way. An analytic solution to the radiation-trapping model is found and estimates of the hole or dark space radius indicated.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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