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Hollow Cathode Discharges for Gas Lasers

Karoly Rozsa
Central Research Institute for Physics,
H-1525 Budapest 114, P.O.B. 49, Hungary
Z. Naturforsch. 3oa, 649-664 (1980);

[received March 27, 1980]

A review of hollow cathode discharges for gas (metal vapour) lasers is given. Particular attention is paid to the arc free discharge region and to the possibility of increasing the intensity of the ionic spectrum of the discharges.

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