caa a22 4500 475822641 CHVBK 20180406123822.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20000501xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF02508521 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF02508521 Konovalov I. aut Wide-aperture electric-discharge XeCl lasers [Elektronische Daten] [I. Konovalov] Experimental investigations have been performed for aXeCl laser with the active region aperture equal to 6.5×7 and 15×15 cm. To pump the laser, two types of generator were used: a generator connected in a double-loop circuit with a peaking capacitor and a multichannel spark gap switch and a magnetic thyratron generator. The working mixtureNe−Xe−HCl was preionized with soft x rays and a low-current electron beam, providing an initial electron density ranging from 106 to 5·1013 cm−3. Conditions in which a homogeneous space discharge is initiated have been studied. It has been investigated how the degree of ionization of the gas and the aperture of the active region affect the discharge and lasing characteristics of the laser. The laser efficiency reaches 4% with an energy of ≈ 6 J extracted from one liter of the active region. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2000 Russian Physics Journal Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 43/5(2000-05-01), 392-396 1064-8887 43:5<392 2000 43 11182 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02508521 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02508521 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Konovalov I. aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Russian Physics Journal Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 43/5(2000-05-01), 392-396 1064-8887 43:5<392 2000 43 11182 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer