Nuclear-pumped gas lasers at temperatures up to 800˚C

Abstract

This article describes the design of a laser setup excited by 3 He(n,p) 3 H reaction products and intended for investigations of the laser characteristics of 3 He mixtures with metal vapors or other gases at temperatures up to 800°C. This setup could also be used to study the effect of the medium heating on the characteristics of nuclear-pumped gas lasers.

Lasers in dense gases pumped by low-energy electron beams

“…20 Many aspects of pumping schemes in cold, dense gases still need to be studied, in particular, the influence of impurities and parameters such as laser gas temperature, which are difficult to control, but strongly influence laser performance. [21][22][23][24] The simple laser setup described here can be used for such detailed studies. It is schematically shown in Fig.…”

Nuclear-Induced Plasmas of Gas Mixtures and Nuclear-Pumped Lasers

“…reduction in the rate of formation of heteronuclear ArXe + ions and mixing laser levels by electrons [69], -destruction of ArXe + ions by buffer gas atoms [70], -collisional quenching and mixing laser levels by buffer gas atoms [71], -active medium contamination by impurities as a result of their desorption from laser cell walls as long as it is warming [72].…”

Characteristics of the 2.65 {mu}m atomic xenon laser

“…16 In strong contrast to the experiments discussed above, Batyrbekov and coworkers demonstrated 1.73 pm atomic xenon laser output that was insensitive to gas temperatures of up to 900 K." These experiments used an electric-discharge pumped laser in which the gas mixture was ionized by radiation from a continuously operating nuclear reactor. They showed that the output energy in a 'H~e/~He/Ar/xe (50/50/50/1, 1.5 atm.)…”