Experiments have been performed to measure, in real time, the formation of Al0 molecules from laser-ablated Al atoms in oxygen gas and plasma environments. The Al atom plume is generated by focusing a KrF laser (4 J/cm’) on Al metal targets or polycrystalline AlaOs (alumina) ceramic. Al0 molecule formation has been characterized by emission spectroscopy at 464.82 and 484.22 nm molecular bandhea...

Singly charged negative atomic ions exist in the gas phase and are of fundamental importance in atomic and molecular physics. However, theoretical calculations and experimental results clearly exclude the existence of any stable doubly-negatively-charged atomic ion in the gas phase, only one electron can be added to a free atom in the gas phase. In this report, using the high-frequency Floquet ...

CO2 laser-plasma interaction provides a unique parameter space for particle acceleration in a gas jet plasma taking place at a critical plasma density ncr ~ 10 cm and even at higher densities (3~10 ncr) of 10μm radiation. Here we report the latest results of our study of electron acceleration in a wide range of plasma densities 1~10 ncr using a multi-TW CO2 laser system at the UCLA Neptune Labo...

The brilliance of a laser-produced soft X-ray source is enhanced for gaseous target concepts. In contrast to solid or liquid target materials, these sources are clean and versatile but provide a comparably low conversion efficiency of laser energy into EUV and soft X-ray radiation. The basic idea is to induce supersonic effects in the gas jet, leading to a local increase of the particle density...

We report initial NMR studies of continuous flow laser-polarized xenon gas, both in unrestricted tubing, and in a model porous media. The study uses Pulsed Gradient Spin Echo-based techniques in the gas-phase, with the aim of obtaining more sophisticated information than just translational self-diffusion coefficients. Pulsed Gradient Echo studies of continuous flow laser-polarized xenon gas in ...

In modern dentistry applications, two different types of laser occupy dominant positions: gas lasers and solid-state lasers. The first of these categories includes the Co2 laser (10 600 nm) and the argon laser (480 + 515 nm), while examples of the solid-state laser are the Nd:YAG (1064 nm), Er:YAG (2940 nm), Er:CrYSGG (2780 nm) and the diode laser (mainly 810 and 980 nm). As the name suggests, ...

A laser produces electromagnetic radiation which is both spatially coherent and of narrow spectral width via a mechanism known as Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. The first working laser was developed in 1960 by Theodore Maiman at Hughes Research Laboratories. Since then laser technology has proliferated, with uses in industry, medicine, research, military and law enforc...

In this paper we describe several diagnostics that we have developed to assist the development of high power gas phase lasers including COIL, EOIL, and DPAL. For COIL we discuss systems that provide sensitive measurements of O2(a), small signal gain, iodine dissociation, and temperature. These are key operational parameters within COIL, and these diagnostics have been used world-wide to gain a ...

Optimizations of gas composition and input energy were performed for gas mixtures containing a buffer gas and either Ar, Kr or Xe as the lasing gas. The total gas pressure was varied between 1 and 14 bar and the input energy from 0.03 to 0.7 J/cm 3. The excitation source was a small coaxial electron beam with a pumping length of 20 cm and a pulse length of 30 ns (FWHM). From an active volume of...