Advanced lasers for fusion
Abstract
The principles of inertial confinement fusion are reviewed, along with the technical status of fusion research (Nd:glass, CO2, iodine) lasers. Laser driver systems' performance requirements for fusion reactors are analyzed, in the context of energy-storing laser media, with respect to such laser design issues as optical damage and breakdown, medium excitation, parasitic and superfluorescence depumping, energy extraction physics, medium optical quality, and gas flow. Group VI atomic laser, rare earth solid-state hybrid lasers, and rare earth molecular vapor lasers are discussed in terms of the energy storage potentialities of these media. The use of highly radiative media, such as the rare-gas monohalide excimers, are examined in the context of short-pulse fusion applications.
- Publication:
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Laser Handbook. Volume 3
- Pub Date:
- 1979
- Bibcode:
- 1979lase.book..627K
- Keywords:
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- High Power Lasers;
- Inertial Fusion (Reactor);
- Laser Fusion;
- Reactor Technology;
- Technology Assessment;
- Equipment Specifications;
- Gas Lasers;
- Laser Materials;
- Laser Targets;
- Molecular Gases;
- Pulse Compression;
- Raman Lasers;
- Rare Earth Elements;
- Solid State Lasers;
- Lasers and Masers