Recent publications have shown that electron impact collisions are more important than Penning collisions in populating the upper level of the 441.6 nm transition of He-Cd + lasers operated as positive column discharges. The authors present evidence that this is not the case in hollow cathode discharges.
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Ainsworth et al. (1983) studied this question.
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