CHEMICAL LASER

摘要

There are provided chemical lasers which provide pulsed radiation in the visible or near visible (denoted hereafter as short-wavelength) range. The novel pulsed short-wavelength chemical lasers are operated by detonating an explosive mixture which contains fuel and lasants, the detonation resulting in electronically excited molecules. Lasing can be brought about by energy transfer within such molecules, or by energy transfer from such excited molecules to other molecules or to atoms resulting in the desired short-wavelength laser emission. The lasers can be operated at high pulse energies.