Nuclear-induced excimer fluorescence
- 1 May 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 51 (5) , 2387-2393
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.327999
Abstract
We consider a theoretical calculation of a proposed atomic iodine laser system excited by a nuclear‐powered photon source. Overall system efficiency of 1.6% is calculated for the KrF fluorescent system and 2.3% for the Ar2F system. Laser power output of about 30 kW is estimated for a laser tube 1.8 cm in diameter and 60 cm long when used with a fast burst reactor. Such systems should easily scale to very high power.This publication has 27 references indexed in Scilit:
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