Halogen Azide Visible Chemical Laser.

Abstract

The object of this work was to develop an efficient chemical gain medium suitable for visible wavelength high energy laser applications. Achieving this goal requires: Demonstrating an efficient and scalable chemical source of electronically excited metastable atoms or molecules. Identifying a transfer agent that will rapidly accept energy from the metastables to generate a population inversion on a transition at visible wavelength. Developing a source of the emitting molecules capable of operating at densities adequate to extract the metastable energy before it decays by other means. jg p4

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1995
Accession Number
ADA303819

Entities

People

  • D. J. Benard
  • E. Boehmer

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Carbon Dioxide Lasers
  • Chemical Lasers
  • Chemical Oxygen Iodine Lasers
  • Chemical Reaction Properties
  • Chemistry
  • Dissociation
  • Efficiency
  • Energy
  • Energy Transfer
  • High Energy
  • Ignition
  • Laser Applications
  • Lasers
  • Molecules
  • Physical Chemistry
  • Production
  • Quenching

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Molecular Photonics/Laser Physics
  • Software Engineering

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Directed Energy - Lasers
  • Microelectronics