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We have developed a vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) lamp at 134 nm with a quasi-point emission geometry using a quasi-continuous-wave (cw) gas jet discharge of an Ar/Kr gas mixture. We have unambiguously identified a new emission continuum centered at 134 nm as a transition of Ar-Kr hetero-nuclear excimers (ArKr*). The VUV emission power of the 134 nm continuum was 10 mW at 21 atm of the total Ar/Kr stagnation gas pressure, at a Kr concentration of 0.1%. Characteristic energy transfer between atoms and dimers plays an important role for the efficient production of ArKr* in such a gas jet discharge.
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Received: 15 June 2000 / Revised version: 31 July 2000 / Published online: 22 November 2000
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Kawanaka, J., Kubodera, S. & Sasaki, W. 134 nm vacuum ultraviolet emission using an Ar/Kr gas mixture excited by a quasi-continuous-wave gas jet discharge . Appl Phys B 72, 179–182 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/s003400000459
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s003400000459