OPTIKA ATMOSFERY I OKEANA JOURNAL
V.E. ZUEV INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS
Vol. 19, issue 02-03, article # 17
pdf Ivanov N. G., Konovalov I. N., Losev V. F., Panchenko Yu. N. X-ray radiation source for discharge preionization in gas lasers. // Atmospheric and oceanic optics. 2006. V. 19. No. 02-03. P. 169-172.Copy the reference to clipboard
Abstract:
We present some experimental results on the X-ray sources for preionization of lasing gas mixtures in wide-aperture electric-discharge excimer lasers. X-ray pulse was formed in a thermionic diode of the inverted type at deceleration of the accelerated electrons in the tantalum foil. It is shown that the use of a metal-dielectric cathode enables one to obtain the X-ray radiation with uniform intensity distribution, accurate to 10%, at the quanta energy up to 55 keV and exposure dose up to 160 mR.