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Armenian Journal of Physics=Ֆիզիկայի հայկական հանդես
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The Interaction of Series-Connected Discharge Modules
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Abrahamyan, A. S. ; Chilingaryan, R. Yu. ; Hakobyan, K. V. ; Sahakyan, Q. G.
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In the manufacture of lasers with a long discharge tube, which is composed of separate series-connected modules, the question arises of how the instability that accidentally arises in one of the modules will affect the other ones. This is especially important with the acoustoplasma power supply of at least one of the modules, when we create these instabilities ourselves. In the experiment, the discharge tube is composed of two series-connected modules having a common gas volume and an optical resonator. One of the modules was powered by direct current, and the other was fed by modulated alternating current, which contained constant and variable components and worked in acoustoplasma mode. The depth of current modulation, which occurs in a module with DC power due to the influence of the module with a modulated current, is measured. It has been experimentally shown that by choosing the magnitude of the constant component of the discharge current in each module and the modulation frequency of the variable component of the discharge current in the acoustoplasma module, it is possible to control the degree of influence of the acoustoplasma module on the DC-powered module.