Stimulated emission in neon-helium streamer chambers

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Abstract

We have investigated the possibility of using stimulated emission in the discharge of a streamer chamber to improve the quality of the image that is photographed. The incremental gain from stimulated emission obtainable in a practical streamer chamber has been estimated from some related experiments with pulsed lasers. We have constructed a model of the dynamics of laser-beam formation in a streamer chamber and estimated the light available for photography. The calculations show that, with plausible values for the population inversion in the streamer-chamber discharge, one can hope to obtain considerable intensification of the streamer image.

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