• DocumentCode
    1102446
  • Title

    Optical quenching and energy extraction involving metastable and dissociative states in hydrogen

  • Author

    Guha, Shekhar ; Kunc, Joseph A. ; Gundersen, Martin A.

  • Author_Institution
    University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
  • Volume
    20
  • Issue
    5
  • fYear
    1984
  • fDate
    5/1/1984 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    504
  • Lastpage
    508
  • Abstract
    Optical quenching of metastable molecular species and the generation of tunable broad-band stimulated emission in the UV is considered for molecular hydrogen. A detailed theoretical analysis is summarized and a Study of the optical energy extraction process, using off-resonant optical pumping from the metastable state c^{3}\\Pi _{u} to the dissociative continuum state b^{3}\\Sigma +_{u} , is presented. Earlier experimental work is discussed, and numerical results for the case of off-resonant pumping are presented.
  • Keywords
    Gas lasers; Laser tuning; Optical resonance; Gain measurement; Hydrogen; Laser excitation; Laser modes; Metastasis; Optical control; Optical pumping; Optical switches; Pump lasers; Stimulated emission;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9197
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/JQE.1984.1072423
  • Filename
    1072423
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1102446