Download or read book Lasers with Nuclear Pumping written by S.P. Melnikov and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-27 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers the history of lasers with nuclear pumping (Nuclear Pumped Lasers, NPLs). This book showcases the most important results and stages of NPL development in The Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF) as well as other Russian and international laboratories, including laboratories in the United States. The basic science and technology behind NPLs along with potential applications are covered throughout the book. As the first comprehensive discussion of NPLs, students, researchers, and application engineers interested in high energy lasers will find this book to be an extremely valuable source of information about these unique lasers.

Download or read book Nuclear Pumped Lasers written by Mark Prelas and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-11-20 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on Nuclear-Pumped Laser (NPL) technology and provides the reader with a fundamental understanding of NPLs, a review of research in the field and exploration of large scale NPL system design and applications. Early chapters look at the fundamental properties of lasers, nuclear-pumping and nuclear reactions that may be used as drivers for nuclear-pumped lasers. The book goes on to explore the efficient transport of energy from the ionizing radiation to the laser medium and then the operational characteristics of existing nuclear-pumped lasers. Models based on Mathematica, explanations and a tutorial all assist the reader’s understanding of this technology. Later chapters consider the integration of the various systems involved in NPLs and the ways in which they can be used, including beyond the military agenda. As readers will discover, there are significant humanitarian applications for high energy/power lasers, such as deflecting asteroids, space propulsion, power transmission and mining. This book will appeal to graduate students and scholars across diverse disciplines, including nuclear engineering, laser physics, quantum electronics, gaseous electronics, optics, photonics, space systems engineering, materials, thermodynamics, chemistry and physics.

Download or read book Nuclear pumped Lasers written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Direct Nuclear pumped Lasers written by N. W. Jalufka and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Nuclear pumped Lasers written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Demonstration of the First Visible Wavelength Direct Nuclear Pumped Laser He Hg written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first direct nuclear pumped laser to operate on a visible wavelength is described, whereas previous nuclear lasers have operated in the infrared. The Sandia Pulsed Reactor II was used as a high flux source of neutrons that pumped a helium-mercury gas laser via the high energy products of the /sup 10/B(n, .cap alpha.)/sup 7/Li nuclear reaction. No other source of energy was utilized. Lasing was observed at 6150 A, corresponding to the 7/sup 2/P/sub 3/2/--7/sup 2/S/sub /sup 1///sub 2// mercury ion transition. The thermal neutron flux threshold for lasing was approximately 1 x 10/sup 16/n/cm/sup 2/-sec, and the laser output was continuous over the 400 .mu.sec operating time of the nuclear reactor. The laser signal appeared to increase linearly with the thermal neutron flux, up to 5.8 x 10/sup 16/n/cm/sup 2/-sec, the highest flux used.

Download or read book First International Symposium on Nuclear Induced Plasmas and Nuclear Pumped Lasers written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Nuclear pumped Lasers for Large scale Applications written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Direct Nuclear powered Lasers written by N. W. Jalufka and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Initial Conceptual Design Study of Self critical Nuclear Pumped Laser Systems written by Richard J. Rodgers and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fundamental Study of Nuclear Pumped Laser Plasmas written by L. W. Downes and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although there have been many activities during the preceding report periods, this interim report will restrict itself to the theoretical prediction of a new laser amplifier process and experimental evidence for the existence of the process. This special report is being generated because this new laser processor may have significant impact on nuclear pumped lasers, as well as high power (and high energy) laser systems in general.

Download or read book Progress in Nuclear Pumped Lasers written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brief review of the historical development of nuclear pumped lasers is given. The sources available for nuclear pumping of gas lasers are mentioned. Some experimental results are briefly described.

Download or read book LASL Program in Nuclear Pumped Liquid Lasers written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lasers based on the lanthanide rare earths in solution show potential for production of efficient, very high energy nuclear pumped laser output. Four of the rare earth ions which appear to be highly suited for nuclear pumped lasers are Eu/sup + + +/, Tb/sup + + +/, Nd/sup + + +/, and Pm/sup + + +/. In general, these systems must be excited by external flashlamps, however, one of the results of research on optical pumping of liquid lanthanide lasers is that in some cases the addition of uranyl ions (UO2/sup + + +/) can increase the pumping efficiency. Sixty fold enhancement of the output has been observed with a mixture of UO2/sup + + +/ and Nd/sup + + +/ at 1.06 microns. Direct nuclear excitation by fission fragments in large volumes of liquids, potentially self-critical reactors, appears to be quite feasible. A brief review of the history of liquid based lanthanide ion lasers is given and future research planned at LASL is discussed.

Download or read book Proposed Nuclear Pumped Laser Experiments Utilizing Gamma Rays written by Dennis R. Womack and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two experiments are described which use a different approach to nuclear pumped lasers. Gamma-rays will be used to attempt lasing on the C yields A transition in the XeF excimer. One experiment will use the gamma-rays to directly pump a high pressure laser mixture, and the other experiment will use gamma-rays to create photons which will in turn photolytically pump a XeF2 laser mixture. Cell design is described and first-order energy deposition calculations are presented. Predicted energy outputs from half-liter laser cells are 17.0 J for the photolytic experiment, and 1.0 J for the direct gamma experiment.

Download or read book An Analysis of the 3He Ar Direct Nuclear Pumped Laser written by Creighton M. Seaford and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Power Beaming to Space Using a Nuclear Reactor pumped Laser written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present political and environmental climate may slow the inevitable direct utilization of nuclear power in space. In the meantime, there is another approach for using nuclear energy for space power. That approach is to let nuclear energy generate a laser beam in a ground-based nuclear reactor-pumped laser (RPL), and then beam the optical energy into space. Potential space applications for a ground-based RPL include (1) illuminating geosynchronous communication satellites in the earths̀ shadow to extend their lives, (2) beaming power to orbital transfer vehicles, (3) providing power (from earth) to a lunar base during the long lunar night, and (4) removing space debris. FALCON is a high-power, steady-state, nuclear reactor-pumped laser (RPL) concept that is being developed by the Department of Energy with Sandia National Laboratories as the lead laboratory. The FALCON program has experimentally demonstrated reactor-pumped lasing in various mixtures of xenon, argon, neon, and helium at wavelengths of 0.585, 0.703, 0.725, 1.271, 1.733, 1.792, 2.032, 2.63, 2.65, and 3.37?m with intrinsic efficiency as high as 2.5%. Frequency-doubling the 1.733-?m line would yield a good match for photovoltaic arrays at 0.867?m. Preliminary designs of an RPL suitable for power beaming have been completed. The MWclass laser is fairly simple in construction, self-powered, closed-cycle (no exhaust gases), and modular. This paper describes the FALCON program accomplishments and power-beaming applications.

Download or read book Compilation of Data Relevant to Nuclear Pumped Lasers written by E. W. McDaniel and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume and Volumes III and V contain a compilation of data relevant to nuclear pumped lasers and are part of a series on atomic and molecular data for gas laser research and development. Volume IV contains data on many different species on atoms, molecules and ions: a large fraction of them are already of direct interest in laser media; many more may become important in the future.