Diagnostics of Low Temperature Plasma by CO Laser Radiation (5.0-7.5 μm)

A review of the work conducted in Gas Lasers Laboratory of P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and devoted to a research of the diagnostic of dynamics of small-signal gain, temperature and population of vibrational levels in the CO-containing gas mixtures excited by pulsed electron-beam sustained discharge is presented. With the help of laser probing techniques the nonlinear Zeeman splitting of the NO lines in a strong magnetic field was also investigated. The studies of gain of the train of nanosecond pulses allowed us to estimate the intensity of the gain saturation of the active medium of the pulsed electron-beam sustained discharge CO laser.