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A 500-J nuclear-pumped gas laser

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A 500-J pulsed gas laser (laser module) pumped by uranium nuclear fission products has been created, which operates on xenon 5d[3/2]1 → 6p[3/2]1 transition with a wavelength of 2.03 μm. Experiments have been performed on a BARS-5 + RUN-2 complex comprising a fast aperiodic self-quenching reactor and a neutron multiplier reactor. A specific laser radiation energy in experiments achieved ∼32 J/dm3 at an efficiency of 3% (ratio of the laser output pulse energy and the energy transferred from fission fragments to gas medium).

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  1. All-Russia Research Institute of Technical Physics, State Nuclear Research Center of the Russian Federation, Snezhinsk, Russia

    A. V. Zagidulin, A. V. Bochkov, V. V. Mironenko & G. S. Sofienko

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Original Russian Text © A.V. Zagidulin, A.V. Bochkov, V.V. Mironenko, G.S. Sofienko, 2012, published in Pis’ma v Zhurnal Tekhnicheskoi Fiziki, 2012, Vol. 38, No. 23, pp. 31–39.

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Zagidulin, A.V., Bochkov, A.V., Mironenko, V.V. et al. A 500-J nuclear-pumped gas laser. Tech. Phys. Lett. 38, 1059–1062 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063785012120115

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