Excimer Lasers
Lasers where optical Amplification occurs in a plasma containing excited dimers with an anti-binding electronic ground state.
An excimer Laser is a powerful kind of laser which is nearly always operated in the Ultraviolet spectral region and generates nanosecond pulses. The excimer Gain medium is a gas mixture, typically containing a noble gas and a halogen, apart from helium and/or neon as Buffer gas. An excimer gain medium is pumped with short current Pulses in a high-voltage electric discharge (or sometimes with an Electron beam), which create so-called excimers molecules which represent a bound state of their constituents only in the excited electronic state, but not in the electronic ground state.
Related Terms
All Solid State Lasers,
Argon Ion Lasers,
Blue Lasers,
Bulk Lasers,
Cooled Lasers,
Cryogenic Lasers,
Diode Pumped Lasers,
Excimer Lasers,
External Cavity Diode Lasers,
Eye Safe Lasers,
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