Intense quasi-cw lasing in the visible region in a high-pressure mixture of inert gases
Basov N. G., Aleksandrov A. Yu., Danilychev V. A., Dolgikh V. A., Kerimov O. M., Myznikov Yu. F., I. G. Rudoi I. G., Soroka A. M.
Intense quasi-cw lasing with an efficiency ^ 1 % has been achieved for the first time on 3/?-3s transitions of neon during electron-beam pumping of a high-pressure He:Ne:Kr(Ar) mixture. The upper working levels are populated selectively through the dissociative recombination of an electron with a molecular neon ion. An effective depopulation of the lower working levels is achieved in a process involving the liberation of an electron in an interaction of resonant levels of the neon atom with krypton (or argon).