Abstract:
A calculation is made of the gain experienced by far ultraviolet radiation in a plasma containing multiply charged helium-like ions. The populations of ionic levels are found by solving a system of rate equations, which allow for radiative decay processes and electron-ion collisions. The solutions are obtained for two cases of optically thin and optically thick plasmas. It is shown that, under steady-state conditions, the inversion density for intercombination transitions reaches 1013–1015 cm–3. The use of stimulated Raman scattering of optical radiation by a plasma of this kind should result in single-pass generation of far ultraviolet radiation (λ~19–40 nm) in an active medium ~0.1–1 cm long.
Citation:
A. V. Vinogradov, I. Yu. Skobelev, E. A. Yukov, “Calculation of the gain for transitions in helium-like ions in the range λ < 50 nm”, Kvantovaya Elektronika, 3:5 (1976), 981–985 [Sov J Quantum Electron, 6:5 (1976), 525–527]
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Pierre Jaeglé, Experimental Methods in the Physical Sciences, 31, Vacuum Ultraviolet Spectroscopy I, 1998, 101
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V A Boiko, A Ya Faenov, S A Pikuz, I Yu Skobelev, A V Vinogradov, E A Yukov, J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Phys., 10:17 (1977), 3387