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Electron collisions with cesium atoms—benchmark calculations and application to modeling an excimer-pumped alkali laser

The B-spline R-matrix (BSR) with pseudostates method is employed to describe electron collisions with cesium atoms. Over 300 states are kept in the close-coupling expansion, including a large number of pseudostates to model the effect of the Rydberg spectrum and, most importantly, the ionization continuum on the results for transitions between the discrete physical states of interest. Predictions for elastic scattering, momentum transfer, excitation and ionization are presented for incident energies up to 200 eV and compared with results from previous calculations and available experimental data. In a second step, the results are used to model plasma formation in an excimer-pumped alkali laser operating on the Cs (62P3/2,1/2 → 62S1/2) (852 nm and 894 nm) transitions. At sufficiently high operating temperature of a Cs–Ar containing quartz cell, pump power, and repetition rate, plasma formation in excess of 1014–1015 cm−3 occurs. This may reduce laser output power by electron collisional mixing of the upper and lower laser levels.