Lasers with Nuclear Pumping

• Main Authors: Melnikov, S.P (Author), Sinyanskii, A.A (Author), Sizov, A.N (Author), Miley, George H. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Atoms.; Physics.; Matter.; Plasma (Ionized gases).; Lasers.; Photonics.; Nuclear engineering.; Optical materials.; Electronic materials.; Nuclear Engineering.; Atoms and Molecules in Strong Fields, Laser Matter Interaction.; Plasma Physics.; Laser Technology, Photonics.; Optical and Electronic Materials.

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 th...

Table of Contents:

• General Issues
• Organization of Experiments On Pulsed Reactors to Seek and Study Nuclear-pumped Lasers
• Investigations of Reactor-pumped Gas NPLs
• Basic Parameters of Nuclear-excited Plasma
• Lasing Mechanisms and Kinetic Models of NPLs
• Nuclear-pumped Laser Devices Based on Gas Media
• Energy Deposition in Gas NPL Active Media
• Optical Inhomogeneities in Sealed NPLs
• Specific Features of NPLs with a Flowing Gas Medium
• Design Concepts for Stationary Reactor Lasers
• Studies of Condensed-media NPLs
• Gas Lasers Excited by Ratiation from Nuclear Explosions
• Comments About Nuclera-Pumped Laser Reserach in the United States.