helium is used for excitation of neon atoms in helium neon laser..
The lasing material in a helium-neon laser is a mixture of helium and neon gases. The neon gas is responsible for emitting the red laser light when excited by the helium gas.
The typical ratio of helium (He) to neon (Ne) in a helium-neon (He-Ne) laser is around 5:1, meaning there is approximately five times more helium than neon in the laser tube. Helium serves as the primary energy source while neon provides the lasing action to produce the laser light.
Depends on the purpose. But if you combine neon with helium, and obtain a helium-neon laser, you can see that it is much smaller than a xenon laser.
An example is the helium-neon laser.
You need the gas mixture to be mostly helium, so that helium atoms can be excited. The excited helium atoms collide with neon atoms, exciting some of them to the state that radiates 632.8 nm. Without helium, the neon atoms would be excited mostly to lower excited states responsible for non-laser lines.A neon laser with no helium can be constructed but it is much more difficult without this means of energy coupling. Therefore, a HeNe laser that has lost enough of its helium (e.g., due to diffusion through the seals or glass) will most likely not lase at all since the pumping efficiency will be too low.
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Helium neon laser is better than ruby laser or most of the four level lasers are better than three level lasers due to the following reasons: The laser output is continuous in the case of helium-neon laser. But it is in the form of pulse in the ruby laser. Ruby laser requires high power pumping source, whereas Helium-neon laser requires low power pumping source like electric discharge. Efficiency of helium-neon laser is more than ruby laser. The defects due to crystalline imperfections are also present in the ruby laser. But it is not so in the helium-neon laser.
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they cant use air cuz its 2 heavy and dence but haluum a thiner verson of air and in neon lights u need it 2 light up
Helium gas serves as the active medium in a He-Ne laser. It provides population inversion between energy levels, allowing for laser action. The helium gas helps to excited the neon atoms to produce laser light at a wavelength of 632.8 nm.
Typically, most pocket red laser pointers have wavelengths that range between 630nm and 680nm. A helium neon red laser pointer has a wavelength of 633nm.
HeNe laser is used to determine the concentration of a fluid , its application is widely used in the engineering field, esp by chemical engineers. In a CSTR reaction, I myself used the HeNe laser to determine the concentration of the effluent reactants with the help of a detector. with the use of absorbency equations and little bit of math u can determine the concentration of your sample/reactants...etc.