1994年7月,国家自然科学基金委员会在武汉主持召开了由华中理工大学陈清明教授承担的科学基金项目“约束放电激励型气体激光器的探索”鉴定会。以中国科学院院士王大珩先生和周炳琨先生为正、副主任的鉴定委员会认为,“课题组出色地完成了该项目规定的任务”,“创造性地提出了气体激光约束放电的激励方法”。以陈清明教授为首的课题组从理论上研究了约束放电激励的动力学过程,并求解了约束放电条件下的Boltzman和Langevin方程, In July 1994, the National Natural Science Foundation of China presided over the appraisal meeting of “Research on Constrained Discharge Excited Gas Lasers” sponsored by Professor Chen Qingming from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan. According to the appraisal committee of academicians Mr. Wang Daheng and Mr. Zhou Bingkun being positive and deputy director of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, “the task group successfully fulfilled the task stipulated in the project” and “creatively proposed the incentive method of gas-laser constrained discharge.” The research team led by Professor Chen Qingming studied the dynamic process of constrained discharge excitation theoretically and solved the Boltzman and Langevin equations under the restrained discharge conditions.