CARBON DIOXIDE AND MOLECULAR BEAM LASERS.

Abstract

Contents: Attainment of negative temperatures by heating and cooling of a system; Negative absorption in a nonequilibrium hydrogen plasma; Radiation enhancement in a recombining plasma; Population inversion obtained by thermal dissociation of molecules in a shock wave; Beam laser for the infrared band; Cooling of free electrons in a plasma; A mechanism ensuring level population inversion in CO2 lasers; Rapid recombination of plasma jets; Population inversion in adiabatic expansion of a gas mixture; Influence of rate of disintegration of the lower laser level on the power of a CO2 laser; Thermal methods of laser pumping; CO2 lasers; Powerful gas lasers; Stimulated Mandelshtam-Brillouin scattering in carbon dioxide in the vicinity of the critical point.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 08, 1967
Accession Number
AD0662637

Entities

Organizations

  • Library of Congress

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Brillouin Scattering
  • Carbon Dioxide
  • Carbon Dioxide Lasers
  • Corpuscular Radiation
  • Electromagnetic Radiation
  • Electrons
  • Free Electrons
  • Gas Lasers
  • Inversion
  • Ionizing Radiation
  • Laser Pumping
  • Lasers
  • Molecular Beams
  • Plasma Jets
  • Radiation
  • Shock Waves

Fields of Study

  • Engineering
  • Physics

Readers

  • Plasma Physics.
  • Pulsed Power and Plasma Physics.
  • Thermal Physics or Thermal Science.

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Directed Energy - Lasers
  • Microelectronics