@article{1088cbbe65824f6999fad49489bffe5a,
title = "Kinetics of the Active Medium of a Copper Vapor Brightness Amplifier",
abstract = "A spatiotemporal kinetics of the active medium of a copper vapor brightness amplifier is described that allows gain characteristics to be investigated during the pump pulse. Model calculations show that changing the discharge parameters allows the radial gain profiles to be improved significantly, as well as the gain and the inversion duration to be increased. The data obtained will be used to choose the operating conditions for the active medium in the brightness amplifier mode.",
keywords = "active medium, active optical system, brightness amplifier, gain, kinetics, plasma",
author = "Kulagin, {A. E.} and Torgaev, {S. N.} and Evtushenko, {G. S.} and Trigub, {M. V.}",
note = "Funding Information: Reducing the pump pulse repetition frequency from 40 to 10 kHz leads to a 2–3-fold increase of the inversion duration. An increase of the working voltage from 8 to 10 kV increases the gain by a factor of 1.5 without deteriorating the radial profile. The data obtained will be used to choose the operating conditions for the active medium in the regime of brightness amplifier. This work was supported in part by the Russian Science Foundation (Project No. 14-19-00175). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature. Copyright: Copyright 2018 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.",
year = "2018",
month = mar,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1007/s11182-018-1312-y",
language = "English",
volume = "60",
pages = "1987--1992",
journal = "Russian Physics Journal",
issn = "1064-8887",
publisher = "Consultants Bureau",
number = "11",
}