Abstract
In a transversely excited (TE) electric discharge laser (CO EDL) with subsonic flow, fundamental laser characteristics have been theoretically examined by numerically solving the Boltzmann equation and rate equations. The effects of a gas flow are also taken into account in this model. The conditions for the calculations are based on the experimental data which were obtained at the small-scale laser facility. These calculations revealed the important role of the abundant N2 in a laser mixture (CO/N2/He=4/32/64) which had been optimized in our experiment.
