CARBON MONOXIDE GAS DYNAMIC LASER
- 1 June 1971
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 18 (11) , 487-489
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1653507
Abstract
Cw laser oscillation has been obtained from supersonic flows of CO in argon which are expanded from a high‐temperature reservoir. The maximum power observed was 20 W from a gas mixture which had been processed to 85 atm and approximately 2000°K. These results appear to confirm that vibrational exchange among the vibrational states of a single diatomic species can lead to preferential population of the upper states and thus produce inversions among these states.Keywords
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