- Author
- Schweitzer, W. G., Jr. | Birky, M. M. | White, J. A.
- Title
- Ears on the Line Profile of Decay Transitions in a Gas Laser.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Washington, DC
- Journal
- Journal of the Optical Society of America, Vol. 57, No. 10, 1226-1230, October 1967
- Keywords
- lasers | neon | spectra
- Identifiers
- decay constant; laser transition; doppler width
- Abstract
- In a gas laser a spectrum line, whose upper state is the lower state of the laser transition, may contain a structure due to the laser action. We have observed this structure, which we refer to as ears, on the [equation] neon line emitted spontaneously in a [equation] He-Ne laser. The width of the ear was measured interferometrically and compared with the width predicted from the phenomenological width [equation] in the laser transition.