Investigation of the feasibility of pumping high energy neodymium glass lasers by chemical flashlamps. Final report
Technical Report
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OSTI ID:5615845
The purpose of the work reported was to determine if chemical reactions in chemical flashlamps could be accelerated to a sufficient degree that the available chemical energy could be radiated in a time comparable to the excited state lifetime of neodymium ions in glass (approximately 350 microseconds), with peak radiation power adequate for producing population inversion in large-aperture Nd-glass laser amplifiers. A second purpose of the work was to estimate the cost of fabrication of the most optimum chemical flashlamps which resulted from this investigation to determine the expected cost-per-shot of a chemical flashlamp pumped system for comparison with xenon flashlamp pumped systems. The work undertaken took two directions: to extend the work employing fluorine-containing oxidizers to higher loadings and shorter times, seeking the maximum peak radiation power; and to investigate the possibility of seeding cyanogen-oxygen combustion with species giving strong radiation in the pump bands of neodymium. (LEW)
- Research Organization:
- GTE Sylvania Products Corp., Montoursville, PA (USA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-48
- OSTI ID:
- 5615845
- Report Number(s):
- UCRL-15627; ON: DE85012962
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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