Experiment and modeling of the pulsed lasing in a diode-pumped argon metastable laser

被引：16

作者：

Wang, Rui ^{[1
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Yang, Zining ^{[1
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Li, Kang ^{[1
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Wang, Hongyan ^{[1
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Xu, Xiaojun ^{[1
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机构：

[1] Natl Univ Def Technol, Coll Adv Interdisciplinary Studies, Changsha 410073, Peoples R China

[2] Natl Univ Def Technol, Interdisciplinary Ctr Quantum Informat, Changsha 410073, Peoples R China

[3] Natl Univ Def Technol, State Key Lab Pulsed Power Laser Technol, Changsha 410073, Peoples R China

[4] Natl Univ Def Technol, Hunan Prov Key Lab High Energy Laser Technol, Changsha 410073, Peoples R China

来源：

JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS | 2022年 / 131卷 / 02期

关键词：

RARE-GAS; KINETICS;

D O I：

10.1063/5.0079512

中图分类号：

O59 [应用物理学];

学科分类号：

摘要：

Diode-pumped metastable rare gas lasers are showing their potential for high-energy laser systems with intensive investigations carried out to understand their lasing characteristics. Here, we demonstrated pulsed lasing of a diode-pumped argon metastable laser based on a pulsed DC glow discharge in argon and helium mixtures for different discharge voltages and pressures. A transient rate equation model was established and solved to explain the cause of the pulsed lasing in our experiment. The insufficient production rate of argon metastable atoms (1s(5)) and the slow transfer rate out of the 1s(4) state in the plasma during the lasing process were found to be the key reasons. This work may shed some light on the future design of plasma sources that have higher metastable atom production rates to achieve highly efficient continuous wave lasing.

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