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Operating features of large-aperture electric-discharge HgBr and XeCl lasers with UV preionization

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Translated from a preprint (manuscripts) of the Lebedev Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow.

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Petrukhin, E.A., Podsosonnyi, A.S. Operating features of large-aperture electric-discharge HgBr and XeCl lasers with UV preionization. J Russ Laser Res 14, 389–401 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01125727

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