CO-Laser. The Formation Mechanism of Population Inversion,

Abstract

The article investigates the formation mechanism of vibrational level population inversion in gas-discharge CO-lasers operating at room temperature and at the temperature of liquid nitrogen. Considerable space is allotted to an exposition of the presently available theoretical and experimental data on the probabilities of vibrational transitions in molecules. The works, in which calculations of the populations of vibrational levels in the CO-laser were carried out, are discussed in detail. (Author Modified Abstract)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 10, 1973
Accession Number
AD0759679

Entities

People

  • N. N. Sobolev
  • V. V. Sokovikov

Organizations

  • National Air and Space Intelligence Center

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Carbon Monoxide Lasers
  • Experimental Data
  • Gas Discharges
  • Inversion
  • Lasers
  • Molecules
  • Nitrogen
  • Probability
  • Transitions

Fields of Study

  • Engineering
  • Physics

Readers

  • Molecular Photonics/Laser Physics
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Directed Energy - Lasers
  • Space
  • Space - Hall-Effect Thruster