Can Noble Gases Be Manipulated to Produce Specific Emission Spectrum Lines?

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The discussion centers on the manipulation of noble gases, specifically argon, to produce specific emission spectrum lines. It is established that while argon naturally emits blue and red lines, achieving a single emission line is challenging but feasible. The helium-neon laser serves as a relevant example, as it primarily emits at two neon lines, with one line suppressed to enhance the other. Utilizing a laser cavity with a wavelength filter can effectively amplify the desired emission while attenuating others.

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Is it possible to manipulate a noble gas to produce any line in its emission spectrum for a ? For example, argon produces blue but it also has several lines of red, can one force the argon to emit the red bands?
 
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A single emission line is difficult, but may be possible. The closest I know of is something like a helium-neon laser which emits mostly at two emission lines of neon. I believe one of these emission lines is suppressed so that most of the laser power is emitted in the other.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium–neon_laser
 
Yeah, if you have a laser cavity, just put a filter for the appropriate wavelength, and this wavelength will be amplified while the others are attenuated by the filter.
 

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