Effect of Hydrogen on the Average Output Power of the UV Cu~(+) Ne-CuBr Laser

摘要

The effect of different additives—air, synthetic air, N_(2), O_(2), CO_(2), He, Ar, Xe, and H_(2), to the neon buffer gas on the average output power of a UV Cu~(+) Ne-CuBr is investigated. It is found that the addition of small amounts of hydrogen, 0.02-0.04 torr, leads to an increase by more than twice of the average output power for simultaneous laser oscillation at the five Cu~(+) lines—248.6, 252.9, 259.7, 260.0, and 270.3 nm.