Discharge and flow characteristics of an electron-beam-controlled pulsed CO/sub 2/ laser is investigated. Several specific discharge issues for the device, such as ionization source uniformity, electric field uniformity, energy deposition uniformity and discharge confinement are addressed by obtaining a self-consistent numerical solution of the laser discharge problem. These solutions include the effects of finite electron beam, finite electrode length and arbitrary electrode shape. The effect of coupling between the cavity acoustics and the discharge is modelled using a general transient 2-dimensional nonlinear approach. Results are presented to demonstrate the effect of this coupling during a pulse time.
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