Batenin V.M., Buchanov V.V., Boichenko A.M., Kazaryan M.A., Klimovskii I.I., Molodykh E.I. High-brightness Metal Vapour Lasers. Volume I: Physical Fundamentals and Mathematical Models

CRC Press and Taylor & Francis Group, 2017. — 542 p. — ISBN: 1482250047High brightness metal vapor lasers have become the most bright and powerful in the visible spectral range among all existing laser types, resulting in numerous applications ranging from purely fundamental research to practical application in large-scale commercial problems such as isotope selection. This book presents a full series of fundamental problems on the development of physical fundamentals and mathematical models for practical realization of a high-power laser radiation on self-contained transitions in metal atoms. It is the first fundamental review on physics and the technique of high-brightness metal vapor lasers.Devices and methods for producing metal vapours
Excitation circuit and its effect on the lasing characteristics of self-heating copper vapour lasers
Excitation circuits of self-contained lasers
Repetitively pulsed self-contained lasers
The results of analytical studies of self-contained lasers
Numerical studies of pulsed metal vapour lasers
Numerical modeling of repetitively pulsed copper vapour lasers taking into account the heterogeneity of distribution of plasma parameters (inhomogeneity of discharge) over the cross section of the gas discharge tube
Simulation of copper vapour lasers. Kinetically enhanced lasers