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The laser was driven by periodic discharge of a capacitor through a discharge tube in conjunction with a three-electrode air gap for current switching. Unlike driver systems using thyratrons and pulse transformers [3, 4, 51], this circuit makes it possible to obtain higher currents, because current of virtually any magnitude can be sent across the spark gap, whereas the current through a thyratron is limited. For the present investigations, naturally, we were motivated to use whatever driver system would admit the maximum range of variation of the discharge parameters.
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Skobel’tsyn, A.D.V. (1973). Experimental Methodological Problems. In: Skobel’tsyn, A.D.V. (eds) Physical Processes in Lasers. The Lebedev Physics Institute Series, vol 56. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-1602-2_11
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