Vol. 27, issue 04, article # 11

Abstract:

By numerical simulations was investigated the effect of the mixture of gases in the XeF(C–A) amplifier hybrid laser system THL-100 on the main channels of energy loss. It is shown that an increase in the buffer gas pressure N₂ from 100 to 760 Torr leads to an increase in the fraction of absorbed energy transmitted to the upper laser level XeF(С, v = 0). Increasing the partial pressure of XeF₂ causes an increase of energy loss in the process of quenching XeF(B, C) and reduce the energy transferred to the XeF(C, v = 0) state.

Keywords:

numerical simulation, amplification of picosecond laser pulses, the hybrid laser system THL-100

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