LASL program in nuclear pumped liquid lasers
Abstract
The suitability of the lanthanide rare earths for nuclear pumped lasers is considered. Four of the rare earth ions with high pumped laser output are Eu(+3), Tb(+3), Nd(+3), and Pm(+3). A sixty fold increase in pumping efficiency was observed with the addition of a mixture of uranyl and neodymium ions at 1.06 microns.
- Publication:
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Presented at First Intern. Symp. on Fission Induced Plasmas and Nucl.-Pumped Lasers
- Pub Date:
- November 1978
- Bibcode:
- 1978fipn.symp.....M
- Keywords:
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- Excitation;
- Nuclear Pumped Lasers;
- Pulse Generators;
- Rare Earth Elements;
- Chelates;
- Energy Levels;
- Fluorescence;
- Laser Outputs;
- Uranium Compounds;
- Lasers and Masers