ABSTRACT
The effect of the spontaneously-generated magnetic field, which is due to the existence of non-parallel gradients of the electron density and temperature, on collisionally-pumped lasers is investigated with the help of the Maxwell-Bloch formalism. The associated Zeeman interaction yields a separation of the line shapes of the circularly-polarized electromagnetic fields which form the amplified radiation. The magnetic field is taken into account in the Voigt function which represents a good approximation for the line shape of the 0-1 and 2-1 radiations in Ne-like germanium lasers. We have investigated the effect on gain coefficients and integrated intensities.
