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A Summary of Recent Research on Continuous-Wave Chemical Lasers

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Modern Optical Methods in Gas Dynamic Research

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It has been a little over 5 years since the first pulsed chemical laser was developed by Kasper and Pimentel (1). During this time, important advances have been made contributing to our understanding of the kinetic mechanisms by which population inversions can be created in chemically reacting gases. Much of this information comes to us from the pulsed chemical laser experiments of Airey, Gross, Moore, Pimentel, and others (2–10), and from the pioneering experimental and theoretical studies of infrared chemiluminescence by Polanyi and co-workers (11–13).

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Cool, T.A. (1971). A Summary of Recent Research on Continuous-Wave Chemical Lasers. In: Dosanjh, D.S. (eds) Modern Optical Methods in Gas Dynamic Research. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-1923-8_12

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