Abstract
In pulse-periodic, sealed-off e-beam-sustained, and TEA CO2 lasers, a space discharge contracts after 103—106 shots. This phenomenon is now attributed to the formation of electronegative complexes like and whose concentrations became comparable with the electron concentration as the O2 content in the gas mixture reaches 0.5-2%.
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