Title

The Amazing Cadmium Atom

Keywords

Cadmium; Cadmium lasers; Metal vapor lasers; Mode-locking; Photoionization lasers; Recombination lasers

Abstract

In this paper, I summarize the unique properties of the Cd atom that have lead to many new types of laser excitation schemes and processes that began 35 years ago. These include the CW blue and ultraviolet laser transitions in Cd+, the generation of 125-ps pulses (the shortest mode-locked pulses at that time), the process of Penning ionization as a laser excitation mechanism, recombination lasers produced by both laser-produced plasmas and a new segmented arc recombination laser (SPER laser) and the first soft-X-ray pumped photoionization laser, which are all described briefly herein.

Publication Date

12-1-2000

Publication Title

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volume

6

Issue

6

Number of Pages

1400-1407

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1109/2944.902194

Socpus ID

0034313045 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/0034313045

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