Chemical oxygen-iodine laser with external production of iodine atoms in CH3I/Ar dc glow discharge

Heterogeneous losses of externally generated I atoms for OIL

“…Mikheyev et al 7 carried out a straightforward comparison of COIL performance for two cases -conventional, when I 2 was injected in the singlet oxygen flow and when iodine atoms produced externally together with other discharge products were injected -was made. In the latter case nearly four times increase in output power was observed.…”

“…Usage of an external iodine atom generator can improve energy efficiency of the oxygen-iodine laser (OIL) and expand its range of operation parameters [1][2][3][4][5][6][7] . Electric-discharge [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17] and chemical [18][19][20] generators have been proposed as a source of iodine atoms for the use in OIL.…”

“…Electric-discharge [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17] and chemical [18][19][20] generators have been proposed as a source of iodine atoms for the use in OIL. Dissociation of iodine-containing molecules in electric-discharge plasmas had been proved to be useful for external production of iodine atoms.…”

“…To provide fast mixing of iodine and oxygen streams small-scale channels in the OIL mixing units had been used 7,[28][29][30][31][32][33] . In this case the loss of iodine atoms in the processes (2) and (3) during transportation through small-scale channels can be significant.…”

Influence of molecular oxygen on iodine atoms production in an RF discharge

“…Recently, iodine atoms were considered as a medium for a basic science parity non-conserving optical rotation experiment [1], where a substantial number density of atoms [I] ~10 15 -10 16 is necessary. Another known practical application of iodine atoms' production technique in large quantities is the development of an advanced oxygen-iodine laser [2].…”