Advanced lasers for fusion applications
Abstract
Advanced laser subsystems performance requirements for a fusion power reactor are presented and analyzed in the context of an energy-storage laser medium. Three types of energy-storaging laser media are identified: (1) Group VI atoms, (2) selected rare-earth doped solids, and (3) rare-earth molecular gases. The operating principles, basic parameters, and conceptual designs for high energy amplifiers are outlined for (a) atomic selenium pumped photolytically with rare-gas excimer radiation, (b) thulium-doped glass pumped with XeF excimer radiation, and (c) terbium chelate vapor pumped with KrF excimer radiation.
- Publication:
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Optical Engineering
- Pub Date:
- June 1978
- DOI:
- 10.1117/12.7972223
- Bibcode:
- 1978OptEn..17..238K
- Keywords:
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- Energy Storage;
- Fusion Reactors;
- Laser Fusion;
- Light Amplifiers;
- Reactor Design;
- Doped Crystals;
- Energy Technology;
- Laser Applications;
- Laser Materials;
- Metal Vapor Lasers;
- Optical Pumping;
- Photolysis;
- Power Amplifiers;
- Xenon Fluoride Lasers;
- Lasers and Masers