New Gas Lasers Committee Report on Electronic Transition Chemically and Electrically Excited Lasers. Meeting of 20-22 September 1972.
Abstract
This report summarizes the ideas generated by a committee of consultants. The purpose of the meeting was to recommend an approach for finding new efficient gas lasers where the inversion is obtained from an electronic transition of the gas. Probable criteria such as quantum efficiency, concentration, lifetime, gain, etc., have been suggested for a suitable system to aid in sorting among the many possible candidates. The most promising diatomic candidates that should be screened are molecular radicals (like CS; OH) and the oxides and halides of Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba, B, Al, Ga, In, Tl, Sn, Pb, and the rare earths. Several experimental and theoretical approaches are suggested that would yield information, such as radiative lifetimes, amount of population inversion, and energy branching ratios, necessary to permit the construction of a laser system. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 01, 1973
- Accession Number
- AD0910179
Entities
People
- Ali Javan
- Aron Kuppermann
- Leroy E. Wilson
- Sidney Benson
- Terry Cool
Organizations
- Air Force Research Laboratory