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, 169 (1987). Reasonably good agreements in the peak output power and laser efficiency have been achieved. Model calculations also predict that an efficiency as high as 2.7% can be obtained once the conditions of the above-mentioned experiments have been optimized. From the consideration that the skin depth effectively limits the absorption length of the microwave pumping and hence the excitable volume, it is concluded that high input power densities (>2 MW/cm3) and higher gas pressures (between 3 and 10 atm) are the preferable conditions to achieve higher efficiency. Preliminary calculations on CCl4 containing XeCl gas mixtures show that improvement in laser efficiency by several folds may be achieved as a result of the higher intrinsic efficiency of excimer formation.
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Received: 23 September 1996 / Revised version: 25 March 1997
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Dem’yanov, A., Lo, D. & Napartovich, A. Numerical modeling of a XeCl laser excited by microwave discharge . Appl Phys B 65, 445–451 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/s003400050295
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