PULSED BEHAVIOR AND INVERSION MECHANISM IN THE CARBON MONOXIDE LASER
- 1 September 1970
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 17 (5), 194-196
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1653361
Abstract
Time delay of lasing transitions in carbon monoxide was investigated at 77 °K under pulsed electrical excitation. Inversion is attributed to anharmonic decoupling which makes v‐v relaxation ineffective for levels above a value ve=1 + kT/hc2ωexe. Initial lasing occurs near ve with subsequent transitions resulting from cascading inversions. Measured delays ranged from 15 to 240 μ sec with undercoupled output up to 1.2 W.Keywords
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