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Wide-aperture CO2 lasers pumped with an electron-beam-controlled discharge

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This review paper presents the results obtained during the development and study of three high-power wide-aperture CO 2 lasers (λ=10.6 μm) pumped with a discharge controlled by an electron beam. In developing these lasers, the method of formation of a space discharge at elevated pressures due to uniform ionization of the working mixture by an electron beam with an energy of some hundreds of kiloelectron-volts was used, which was proposed by researchers at the Instute of High-Current Electronics (IHCE).

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  1. Yu. I. Bychkov
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  2. B. M. Kovalchuk
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  3. G. P. Kuzmin
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  4. G. A. Mesyats
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Institute of High-Current Electronics, Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 5, pp. 5–11, April, 2000.

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Bychkov, Y.I., Kovalchuk, B.M., Kuzmin, G.P. et al. Wide-aperture CO2 lasers pumped with an electron-beam-controlled discharge. Russ Phys J 43, 345–351 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02508515

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