Abstract
Laser output of discharge excimer lasers is related to the avalanche completion timet A. The important role of preionization electron number densityn e(0) in reducingt A is then considered. A simple two-stage model is proposed to describe the electron avalanche process under marginalE/n conditions. The theoretical predictions according to the two stage model are in good agreement with the experiments. That vigorous preionization is critical to stable operation of large aperture, high pressure discharge devices is concluded.
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A portion of the work was done when the author was at UCSD