High Pressure Gas Laser with Preionization by Reactor,

Abstract

A nuclear reactor has already been employed as a source of ionization of gas in a considerable volume (approximately 750 cc) at a pressure close to atmospheric in experiments on immediate excitation of generation in a Hg + He3 mixture. This paper reports about experiments on combined excitation of a CO2 laser conducted on the same reactor (flow density of thermal neutrons in the central channel D approximately 5 x 10 to the 16th power neutrons/sq cm-sec, pulse length about 1 msec).

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 27, 1973
Accession Number
AD0776109

Entities

People

  • E. P. Velikhov
  • S. S. Krasilnikov
  • V. D. Pismennyi
  • V. M. Andriyakhin
  • V. V. Vasiltsov

Organizations

  • United States Army Foreign Science and Technology Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Carbon Dioxide Lasers
  • Demographic Cohorts
  • Excitation
  • Gas Lasers
  • High Pressure
  • Ionization
  • Lasers
  • Neutrons
  • Nuclear Reactors
  • Thermal Neutrons

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Pulsed Power and Plasma Physics.
  • Solar Physics

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Directed Energy - Lasers