Population Inversions and the Measurement of Gain in Laser-Produced Plasmas
- 18 August 1975
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 35 (7), 435-438
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.35.435
Abstract
We consider plasma conditions leading to a population inversion with respect to the ground state of an ion and problems arising in the measurement of gain in laser-produced plasmas. These considerations indicate that recent reports of superradiant emission in a laser-produced aluminum plasma at 117.41 Å might be subject to reinterpretation.Keywords
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