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Mathematical simulation of the physical processes in an active medium is used to carry out detailed theoretical investigations of the kinetics and of the lasing characteristics of electron-beam-controlled (EB) discharge lasers operating on vibrational-rotational transitions of the molecules C02, CO, H2, and HD. The power, energy, efficiency, and lasing spectrum are obtained as functions of the composition of the active medium and of the pumping conditions (the value of E/N, the power and duration, the spatial homogeneity). The influence of the isotopic composition of the carbon monoxide on the lasing characteristics of a CO laser is studied. The restrictions connected with the breakdown of the active medium by its own radiation are investigated for CO2, H2, and HD molecules.
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This article is a report of the results of theoretical investigations of electron-beam-controlled discharge lasers performed at the Quantum Radiophyiscs Laboratory of the Lebedev Institute in 1973–1977.
Translated from Trudy Ordena Lenina Fizicheskogo Instituta im. P. N. Lebedeva Akademii Nauk SSSR, Vol. 116, pp. 7–53, 1980.
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Vtorova, N.E., Dolinina, V.I., Lobanov, A.N. et al. Theoretical investigation of the kinetics and of the energy characteristics of electron-beam-controlled discharge lasers. J Russ Laser Res 1, 268–310 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01120378
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