Plasma Lasers
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Lasers which operate in a highly ionized plasma environment. Many plasma lasers have transient gain medium generated by using a high power pulsed laser and focusing it onto the material to be ablated. Others are based on rapid expansion of hot plasma from a nozzle. Some plasma lasers operate continuously (for example recombination lasers in stellar atmospheres). The goal of most researchers is to construct efficient UV and x-ray lasers.