Investigation of the Fundamentals for Collisionally Excited VUV and XUV Lasers
{'Code': '07010000', 'Directorate': {'LongName': 'Directorate For Engineering'}, 'Division': {'LongName': 'Div Of Electrical, Commun & Cyber Sys'}}
{'SignBlockName': 'Lawrence S. Goldberg'}
To date only a few laser transitions in very short wave length of               vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) or soft X-ray region have been demonstrated.           The main thrust of the research is to establish experimentally                  controllable criteria to ascertain the feasibility of XUV and VUV               lasers.  VUV transitions in the ionic alkali halide excimers, with              potential high output power, and XUV transitions in doubly excited              alkali atoms, promising the generation of coherent radiation below 100          nm are being studied.  For both systems pumping of the upper laser              levels by collisional energy transfer from excited metastable rare gas          atoms is being investigated.  A second objective is the investigation           of collisional energy transfer processes from excited metastable rare           gas atoms to inner shell excited alkali atoms and ionic alkali halide           molecules.  Furthermore, the decay of highly excited alkali atoms and           alkali halide molecules is being studied.
{'FirstName': 'Roland', 'LastName': 'Sauerbrey', 'EmailAddress': None, 'StartDate': '08/15/1985', 'EndDate': None, 'RoleCode': 'Principal Investigator'}
{'Name': 'William Marsh Rice University', 'CityName': 'Houston', 'ZipCode': '770051827', 'PhoneNumber': '7133484820', 'StreetAddress': '6100 MAIN ST', 'CountryName': 'United States', 'StateName': 'Texas', 'StateCode': 'TX'}
{'Code': '1517', 'Text': 'ELECT, PHOTONICS, & MAG DEVICE'}
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