SELECTION OF MODELING CRITERIA IN THE DEVELOPMENT 
OF SYSTEMS FOR EXCITATION OF THE ACTIVE
MEDIUM FOR GAS-DISCHARGE LASERS
L. R. Aibatov

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It is shown that an algorithm for selection of modeling 
criteria that lies in isolating the most general features of the objects 
studied can lead to such investigational methods as methods of dimensional 
theory and similarity theory. Similarity relations for electrodeless 
gas discharges are given that are obtained based on the above algorithm. 
A design technique is presented for a system for excitation of the 
active medium for CO2 lasers with pumping by a non-self-maintained 
discharge and preionization by an electrodeless pulsed discharge.

A. N. Tupolev Kazan State Technical University, Kazan, Russia; 
email: vvi@karlson.kai.ru. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii 
Zhurnal, Vol. 74, No. 1, pp. 160-165, January-February, 2001. 
Original article submitted April 25, 2000.

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