A DEMONSTRATION OF LASER PUMPING USING A COMPRESSED GAS LIGHT SOURCE
- 1 March 1968
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 12 (5) , 184-186
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1651944
Abstract
Xenon gas has been compressively heated to temperatures of from 8000 to 15,000°K in a ballistic compressor system. Brightness measurements of the light pulses produced indicate blackbody radiation at these temperatures. The radiation has been coupled into a neodymium‐doped glass laser rod with resulting laser action. The system affords a direct transfer of mechanical energy into pumping radiation without the necessity of intermediate energy storage devices.Keywords
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