Visible chemical lasers
Abstract
Applications for visible chemical lasers, which show great potential as highly efficient, wavelength agile, deployable, high brightness laser systems are discussed. These systems provide important and unique opportunities for both directed energy weapons and diagnostic applications. Issues discussed in this paper include concepts, requirements and approaches to visible chemical lasers. A survey of candidate energy transfer system is also given, with emphasis on excited NF and nitrogen driven lasers. The long term, low level investment in this techonology area during the past decade firmly establishes the opportunity for a lasing demonstration in the near term.
- Publication:
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Lasers 1989
- Pub Date:
- 1990
- Bibcode:
- 1990lase.conf..232P
- Keywords:
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- Chemical Lasers;
- Iodine Lasers;
- Laser Weapons;
- Oxygen;
- Atomic Excitations;
- Carrier Lifetime;
- Energy Transfer;
- Metastable Atoms;
- Lasers and Masers