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The results of investigations of UV, visible, and infrared lasers pumped by a self-sustained discharge and operating by transitions of molecules, atoms, and ions are presented and the laser constructions are described. For excitation of the working mixtures, generators with capacitive and inductive energy stores and various preionization systems were used. Optimum conditions for pumping various lasers have been found and simple and reliable prototypes of exciplex, nitrogen, HF, CO2, and other electric-discharge lasers (Foton, LIDA, DILAN, AIL, and ELAN) for scientific research have been created. Radiation energies from some fractions of a millijoule to 3 J have been obtained for a number of transitions at wavelengths ranging between 157 and 10,600 nm with a high efficiency.
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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. 45–53, April, 2000.
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Panchenko, A.N., Tarasenko, V.F. Pulsed lasers pumped with a self-sustained discharge. Russ Phys J 43, 383–391 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02508520
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