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Population inversion of vibrational levels in the case of kinetic cooling of a moving gas

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An analysis is made of the possibility of using kinetic cooling of a gas moving at a low subsonic or supersonic velocity in a field of continuous resonance radiation to produce a medium with population inversion.

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Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 5, pp. 139–144, September–October, 1982.

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Levin, V.A., Starik, A.M. Population inversion of vibrational levels in the case of kinetic cooling of a moving gas. Fluid Dyn 17, 768–772 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01090161

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