Radiative Collisional Laser Feasibility Demonstration.

Abstract

Collisional radiative process between metastable state He and ground state N2 has investigated through two separate experiments: gain/absorption in electron-beam excited He/N2 gas mixtures, and change of He metastable density in the presence of external photon flux. No net gain was observed in He/N2 system as it was presumably overwhelmed by the background absorption. However, the preliminary results of our He metastable density measurement gives strong evidence for existence of collisional radiative process. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 07, 1983
Accession Number
ADA135793

Entities

People

  • K. Y. Tang
  • L. W. Downes
  • R. A. Tilton
  • S. D. Marcum
  • W. E. Wells Jr.

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Absorption
  • Absorption Spectra
  • Amplifiers
  • Charge Transfer
  • Dye Lasers
  • Electron Beams
  • Energy Levels
  • Ground State
  • Laser Beams
  • Laser Pulses
  • Lasers
  • Liquid Dye Lasers
  • Measurement
  • Metastable State
  • Military Research
  • Production Rate
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Acoustics.
  • Molecular Photonics/Laser Physics

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Directed Energy - Lasers
  • Microelectronics