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Thomson scattering measurements had shown a rapid drop of the electron temperature in CVL. The main consequence is a three body recombination governed solely by the electron density during the post discharge phase. Hence the low laser levels are populated through a very slow stepwise radiative desexcitation, for small and medium bore size CVL. Prior calculations involving Electron Distribution Function (EDF) and kinetic are in good agreement with observations.
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Maury, J., Lemaire, P., Goossens, J.P., Le Guyadec, E., Borgard, J.M. (1996). Physical Consequences of the Rapid Drop of the Electron Temperature in Copper Vapour Laser (CVL). In: Little, C.E., Sabotinov, N.V. (eds) Pulsed Metal Vapour Lasers. NATO ASI Series, vol 5. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1669-2_23
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