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Direct conversion of sunlight into laser light without the need for a complicated intermediate step of energy conversion is an important possibility for high power cw space-based lasers. The principle of broadband optical pumping using flashlamps to achieve a working laser is well known and has been put into practice with the ruby laser, Nd:YAG, and dye lasers.1 Broadband pumping of gas lasers has not been so extensively studied.2 Recently, however, an optically pumped iodine laser has been demonstrated using a solar simulator.3
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Christiansen, W.H., Insuik, R.J. (1984). High Power Blackbody Pumped CO2 Lasers. In: Onorato, M. (eds) Gas Flow and Chemical Lasers. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-7067-7_34
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