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VOLUME 39 (1984) | ISSUE 9 | PAGE 426
Electroionization laser using metastable xenon atoms
A new approach is proposed for developing high-power gas lasers which work on atomic transitions. The idea is to pump the working levels by an externally sustained electroionization discharge from highly excited metastable states excited in the active medium by an external source. An output energy of more than 50 J at the wavelength 1.73 /zm has been achieved from an Ar:Xe laser with an active-medium volume of 10 liters.