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Multiline laser probing was applied for the diagnostics of the active medium of a wide-aperture carbon monoxide laser amplifier. The temporal behavior of the small-signal gain in the active medium of a pulsed electron-beam sustained discharge CO laser amplifier was studied with a specially designed probe CO laser in a wide range of ro-vibrational spectral lines (from V = 5 up to V = 31). The results were analyzed in order to reconstruct the temporal behavior of gas temperature and vibrational populations in CO-containing gas mixtures, CO:He and CO:N2, and oxygen-rich CO: O2 mixtures.
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Vetoshkin, S.V., Ionin, A.A., Klimachev, Y.M. et al. Multiline laser probing of CO:He, CO:N2, and CO:O2 active media in a wide-aperture pulsed amplifier. J Russ Laser Res 27, 33–69 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10946-006-0002-3
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