An investigation of the effects of the discharge parameters on the performance of a TEA N₂laser

The effects of the discharge parameters on laser performance have been studied experimentally and theoretically in a TEA N2laser driven by a Blumlein circuit. Unmeasurable circuit constants such as the resistance and the inductance of discharge plasma are derived by circuit analysis, and the dependence of the laser output energy on the discharge parameters is discussed in terms of the theoretical quantity which denotes the figure of merit of the discharge circuit.