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Long-pulse (0.5 μsec) electric-discharge XeCl laser continuously tunable in the 307.00–308.93 nm range

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Translated from a preprint (manuscript) of the Lebedev Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow.

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Efimovskii, S.V., Zhigalkin, A.K., Karev, Y.I. et al. Long-pulse (0.5 μsec) electric-discharge XeCl laser continuously tunable in the 307.00–308.93 nm range. J Russ Laser Res 14, 360–376 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01125725

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