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ray@net.net wrote in article <366d19e3.3941808@news.supernews.com>...
> Hi all
> I'm looking for info on metal vapor and self-terminating lasers.
> As far as now I know of:
> Copper (SAM laser faq)
> Lead (720nm)
> Neon(540.1nm)
> Manganese(?)
> Gold(?)
>
> Are there any other laser which can work
> in self-terminating mode?

 Xenon ion and Oxygen ion , Xenon on green lines and Oxygen on blue, green
and yellow lines, they are not superradient, and require cavity optics,
Xenon gets a hot cathode, oxygen gets a cold cathode, in a tube basically
identical to a ion laser tube. neither will lase CW, and xenon is self
terminating, oxygen lases in the afterglow like mercury. the journal
"Review of Scientific Instruments" had oxygen plans about 12 years ago, and
it has very high gain.  Xenon was used in some older resister trimmers.