Gas laser with solar excitation
Abstract
Gas lasers are found suitable for use with solar energy as a pump source because they provide a high volume of the active medium, coupled with low values for the pump threshold. The dynamics of solar pumped gas lasers are analyzed using CO2, Br2, and He. It is noted that the larger part of solar radiation lies in the visible spectrum, which is not especially suitable for pumping, but reactions within the gases are found to render long visible wavelengths somewhat more energetic.
- Publication:
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ZhETF Pisma Redaktsiiu
- Pub Date:
- August 1977
- Bibcode:
- 1977ZhPmR..26..163G
- Keywords:
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- Gas Lasers;
- Gas Mixtures;
- Lasing;
- Optical Pumping;
- Solar Energy Conversion;
- Bromine;
- Carbon Dioxide Lasers;
- Helium;
- Laser Materials;
- Lasers and Masers