Experiments and theory on energy extraction in an atmospheric-pressure CO2amplifier with 60 ns-1 µs pulses

We measured the energy extraction for 60-ns pulses and compared our experimental and theoretical results. The theoretical curve is in agreement with the experimental results. We plotted the theoretical evolution of
\alpha, N_{001}/N_{A}, N_{100}/N_{A}
, and
T
in an amplifying stage. We finally compared the different energy extraction versus the pulse duration.