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The experimental results in studying lasing and pumping parameters of the CuBr laser with attypical excitation mode are presented in the paper. The excitation was provided by the single pulse mode with preliminary preparation of the active medium by pulse sequence (zug). The effect of the time delay between pulse sequence and single excitation pulse on the CuBr + Ne and CuBr + Ne + HBr media lasing was determined. It has been established that an increase in this time delay leads to an increase in the duration of the generation pulse. It was shown for the first time that lasing in a CuBr + Ne + HBr laser can be obtained with a relaxation time of the active medium up to 5 ms. The critical electron concentration which provides ability of generation for CuBr + Ne and CuBr + Ne + HBr media was experimentally shown.
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The authors are grateful to the chief electronics engineer of the QEL IOA SB RAS, Dimaki V.A. for assistance in the organization of the source control system, researcher QEL IOA SB RAS Kulagin A.E. for discussing plasma kinetics.
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The study of the amplitude-time parameters of the generation of the medium on self-limiting transitions of metal atoms was carried out within the framework of the Russian Science Foundation Project No. 19-79-10096-P. The work on modification of the power supply control system was carried out within the framework of the state task of the Institute of Atmospheric Optics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
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Trigub, M.V., Troitskii, V.O. & Karasev, N.V. Atypical excitation mode of CuBr + Ne and CuBr + Ne + HBr active media. Opt Quant Electron 55, 873 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11082-023-05086-z
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