Investigation of an XeF laser pumped by gamma radiation from a nuclear explosion

Authors :: A V Karelin
Sergei I Yakovlenko
A. E. Lakhtikov
E. K. Bonyushkin
A. P. Morovov
B V Lazhintsev
Aleksandr M Boichenko
Source :: Quantum Electronics. 26:410-412
Publication Year :: 1996
Publisher :: IOP Publishing, 1996.
Abstract: Experimental and theoretical investigations were made of an XeF laser pumped by a travelling ionising wave originating from a nuclear explosion. The results indicated that an efficiency, in terms of the input energy, could reach 1–3%.

Subjects :: Nuclear explosion
Materials science
law
Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
Nuclear pumped laser
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Radiation
Atomic physics
Laser
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Ionizing radiation
law.invention

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