Argon ion / Argon krypton

[mixedgas]

let me clarify that Argon and Krypton need a electron stripped off the atom to lase, and cadmium and neon in HeCad and HeNe just need the electron excited to a higher level orbit. Neon and Cadmium lase when the high orbit electron falls back down. The helium is ionized, and it collides with neutral neon or neutral cadmium, and transfers the energy during the collision between the atoms.

Argon and Krypton lase just before recombination of the ion and the electron.

Both types depend a lot on collisions of the atoms in the tube with the walls of the tube to release energy and encourage lasing, in fact Hene wont lase without it.

Steve

[keeperx]

Basically what MixedGas is trying to tell you is that gas lasers work on the poorly documented principles of Magic and mysticism...

or at least thats what I read....

i don't get all that brainy stuff.. thats Steve's department.

[GooeyGus]

Here's a good example... I took this picture through a diffraction grating. The colors to the right are the colors that the gas produces. But, as Steve already mentioned, these are not all lasing lines.

[allthatwhichis]

NICE!!! At least a thousand words there. Thanks!

[stanwax]

Wow Gus thats a treeemendous pic - lovely colours and as pointed out that image says so much

Rob

[keeperx]

im impressed... thats art..

[allthatwhichis]

No... that's physics... Nature is much more than art. Art is our way of trying to reproduce Nature.

[Laserman532]

No... that's physics... Nature is much more than art. Art is our way of trying to reproduce Nature.

AAAhhhh Yes,,,but a word about style,,,Style is not the way you pick your nose...it's where you put the bugger!

[Carl B]

Give me a verbal slapping if this sounds silly but if a HeNe can produce multiple lines IE Red, Yellow & Green would multi line optics give you a multi line beam?

[allthatwhichis]

I know there are tunable HeNes but I am not sure about multiline in that sense. Um... Steve.