Kinetics modelling of a self-sustained discharge KrF laser
D S Ong; T Y Tou; K S Low
Журнал:
Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics
Дата:
1997-02-07
Аннотация:
Figures 5 and 6 and their captions in the above paper were interchanged. The correct text and numbering are shown below. Figure 5. A comparison between the KrF<sup>*</sup> densities using the single-state and two-state models for the upper laser level. The plots in figures 4 show the temporal evolution of 16 selected discharge species whose densities were at least three orders of magnitude higher than the rest. It was computed that, during the quasi-steady phase, the respective densities for excited-state manifolds of Kr<sup>*</sup> and Kr<sup>**</sup> decreased by more than an order of magnitude while that of the vibrationally excited KrF<sup>**</sup> species remained fairly steady. Figure 6. Comparisons between the computed (full line) and measured (dotted) discharge waveforms. V, voltage; I, current; and V<sub>d</sub>, the computed laser-channel voltage. The Kr<sub>2</sub><sup>*</sup> species was found to contribute to the photon-absorbing species Kr<sub>2</sub>F<sup>*</sup>. The computed results showed that ECQ of the KrF<sup>*</sup>, KrF<sup>**</sup> and Kr<sub>2</sub>F<sup>*</sup> species contributed to the rising atomic density of F. On the other hand, ECQ reduced the He<sup>*</sup> metastable species density. The density of He<sup>*</sup><sub>2</sub> was increased mainly the electron - ion recombination excitation, e<sup>-</sup>+He<sub>2</sub><sup>+</sup>. The rates of formation of excited KrF molecules were compared for two separate cases of (i) one-state and (ii) two-state upper laser levels shown in figure 5.
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