Fission fragment pumping of CO gas mixtures
Abstract
The paper reports some initial experiments on the spectral properties of the room-temperature CO nuclear pumped laser as well as results of some parameter optimization experiments. Preliminary spectral measurements over a wide range of vibrational levels do not show any obvious evidence that vibrational excitation enters at a single high vibrational level and cascades downward. Parameter optimization has resulted in peak laser powers of approximately 20 W and laser energies of not less than 1 mJ, which are greater than those reported thus far for any room temperature nuclear pumped laser.
- Publication:
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Nuclear Induced Plasmas and Nuclear Pumped Lasers
- Pub Date:
- 1979
- Bibcode:
- 1979nipn.symp...67M
- Keywords:
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- Carbon Monoxide Lasers;
- Gaseous Fission Reactors;
- Laser Outputs;
- Nuclear Pumped Lasers;
- Vibrational Spectra;
- Gas Mixtures;
- Gas Pressure;
- Infrared Lasers;
- Lasing;
- Pulsed Lasers;
- Room Temperature;
- Spectrum Analysis;
- Lasers and Masers