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Pulsed elemental and compound metal-vapor lasers: Problems and prospects

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The development status of pulsed metal vapor lasers operating on transitions from resonance into metastable levels of atoms and ions, basic concepts, problems associated with their study and development, and recent advances and prospects for further development are considered.

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P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences. Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 8, pp. 18–22, August, 1999.

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Petrash, G.G. Pulsed elemental and compound metal-vapor lasers: Problems and prospects. Russ Phys J 42, 674–677 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02509339

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