The use of Inductive Discharge for Laser Pumping of a Copper Vapor

Results of numerical simulation re presented for copper vapor laser (CVL) excitation by a pulse-periodical inductive discharge. A CVL realization with a coaxial discharge chamber is studied. It was shown that a coaxial chamber is better matched with specific features of inductive pumping method than an ordinary cylindrical chamber. High lasing output characteristics are obtained in numerical experiments, which confirms possibility of efficient pumping CVL by a new inductive method. (paper)