Proof of the Feasibility of Coherent and Incoherent Schemes for Pumping a Gamma-Ray Laser
Abstract
This report focuses upon a breakthrough recently realized along the more complex direction toward the coherent pumping of a gamma-ray laser. The intent is to mix the quantum properties of long-lived nuclear states with those able to radiate freely. In this way the metastability of an isomeric state could be switched off. The critical experiment is to show that some laboratory level of coherent input power can affect the properties of a nuclear level. Reported here are the details of a series of experiments which clearly demonstrated that large levels of modulation of the phases of nuclear states can be obtained with relatively modest input powers. Now many more critical experiments become possible even along this more complex path toward a gamma-ray laser. Also reported here are the most recent advances we have made in the preparation of the thin film diamond materials. Efficacy of the unique laser plasma process we describe is so great that it already has become clear that applications will range far beyond the support of this gamma-ray laser project. Table of Contents: A Laser Plasma Source of Amorphic Diamond; and Observations Of Large Scale Nuclear Phase Modulation Effects.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 1988
- Accession Number
- ADA201931
Entities
People
- Carl B. Collins
Organizations
- University of Texas at Dallas