Published May 1965 | Version Published
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Spectroscopy of ion lasers

Abstract

A brief review of the history of laser oscillation in gaseous ions is given, including a tabulation of wavelengths, classifications, and references for the 230 reported ion laser transitions. Selection rules and excitation mechanisms yielding oscillation are discussed.

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© 1965 IEEE. Manuscript received March 8, 1965. A detailed list of acknowledgments would be almost as long as the list of references. We would like to thank the many people who have shared their most recent work with us. We also wish to acknowledge the many pleasant and productive discussions we have had with W. E. Bell, H. G. Cooper, L. Dana, E. I. Gordon, E. F. Labuda, R. A. McFarlane, and D. C. Sinclair. We would like to express our particular thanks to C. J. Humphreys, who so kindly supplied us with his unpublished listing of krypton and xenon lines.

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