Attachment loss of photo-ionization electrons in TEA CO2lasers
- 1 December 1977
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics
- Vol. 10 (17), L237-L240
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0022-3727/10/17/002
Abstract
The useful usable time delay range between the preionizing and main discharges in a TEA CO2 laser, for reliable, arc-free operation, has been observed to be greatly reduced by the presence of small (2 in the laser gas mixture. Three-body attachment of thermal electrons to O2 molecules provides a loss mechanism for preionizing electrons to explain the observed results.Keywords
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