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1 online resource (542 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Notations, indexes and abbreviations; Introduction; 1: Devices and methods for producing metal vapours; 1.1. First designs of metal vapour lasers; 1.2. Self-heated lasers; 1.2.1. Thermal regime of discharge laser tubes; 1.2.2. Design of structures with self-heating laser tubes; 1.3. The explosive method for producing metal vapours; 1.4. Pumping laser systems; 1.5. The flow of fine particles as the active medium of metal vapour lasers; 1.6. Methods for affecting the output characteristics of lasers |
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1.7. Laser cells for copper vapour lasers with a transverse discharge1.8. Laser tubes with a hollow cathode; 1.9. Modified cells for gas discharge lasers; 1.10. Laser cells pumped by electron beams; 1.11. Metal vapour salts lasers; 1.11.1. Methods for introducing metal atoms into the working zone; 1.11.2. Gas discharge tubes; 1.11.3. Methods for producing vapours for hybrid metal vapour lasers; 1.12. The principles of calculating the thermal regime of emitters; 2: Excitation circuit and its effect on the lasing characteristics of self-heating copper vapour lasers |
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2.1. Electrical characteristics of the discharge2.2. Distribution of electrical energy consumed by a rectifier in different elements of the charger and discharge circuits; 2.3. Effect of the charging circuit on the lasing characteristics of self-contained lasers; 2.4. Influence of the discharge circuit on the lasing characteristics of self-contained lasers; 2.5. Features of the thyratron in pulse-periodic copper vapour lasers; 3: Excitation circuits of self-contained lasers |
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3.1. Discharge circuits that increase the steepness of the leading edge of the voltage pulse on electrodes of gas discharge tubes3.2. Excitation circuits with pulse transformers; 3.3. Thyratron excitation units with higher excitation pulse repetition frequency and increased switching capacity; 3.4. Excitation units with Blumlein circuits; 3.5. Excitation units reducing the effect of cataphoresis on the loss of working metal from GDT; 3.6. Thyratron-thyristor excitation drive units; 3.7. Generators of dual pulses and excitation pulse trains |
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3.8. Excitation pulse generators on tacitrons and vacuum triodes3.9. Excitation circuits of pulse-periodic lasers with dischargers as switches; 3.10. Excitation circuits with semiconductor switches; 3.11. Methods for controlling the characteristics of metal vapour lasers; 3.12. Prospects for the development of excitation pulse generators of self-contained lasers; 4: Repetitively pulsed self-contained lasers; 4.1. The history of research of repetitively pulsed metal vapour lasers; 4.2. The radial inhomogeneity of the plasma parameters in the repetitively pulsed self-contained lasers |
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4.2.1. The heterogeneity of the temperature distribution of gas |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
High power lasers -- Design and construction
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High power lasers -- Mathematical models
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Metal vapor lasers -- Design and construction
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Metal vapor lasers -- Mathematical models
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Buchanov, V. V
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Boichenko, A. M
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Kazaryan, M. A
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Klimovskii, I. I
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Molodykh, E. I
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| ISBN |
9781482250053 |
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1482250055 |
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