Effective Glow Formation For A Simple And Small Open Air Transversely Excited Atmospheric (TEA) N2 Laser

Hiroshi Taniguchi; Hiroshi Saito

doi:10.1117/12.959026

15 May 1981 Effective Glow Formation For A Simple And Small Open Air Transversely Excited Atmospheric (TEA) N₂ Laser

Hiroshi Taniguchi, Hiroshi Saito

Proceedings Volume 0236, 1980 European Conf on Optical Systems and Applications; (1981) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.959026
Event: 1980 European Conference on Optical Systems and Applications, 1980, Utrecht, Netherlands

Abstract

The N₂ laser requires the uniform glow discharge for the high power- and stable-operation. This paper describes a novel stabilization technique for the glow discharge of N₂ laser in an open-air operation. The laser of 12-cm active length is excited transversely by the Blumlein pulser, and uses the simple distributed-capacitor. This distributed-capacitor leads to the pilot-discharge to suffer the high density glow discharge between the main electrodes. The suitable conditions of the glow discharge formation in an atmospheric air were found experimentally, and glow discharge in TEA operation was achieved by applying the pre-ionization technique, and nano-second UV N₂ laser pulses were obtained.

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Hiroshi Taniguchi and Hiroshi Saito "Effective Glow Formation For A Simple And Small Open Air Transversely Excited Atmospheric (TEA) N₂ Laser", Proc. SPIE 0236, 1980 European Conf on Optical Systems and Applications, (15 May 1981); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.959026

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