Abstract:An investigation was made of the characteristics of the formation of a selfcontroled volume discharge for the pumping of CO 2 lasers, i.e. self-sustained volume discharge (SSVD), which involved a preliminary lling of a discharge gap by an electron ®ux from an auxiliary-discharge plasma. We have found that this method was suitable for large interelectrode gaps, that distortion of the electric eld in the gap by the space charge of the electron ®ux played an important role in the formation of the discharge and th… Show more
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