Nuclear-pumped uranyl salt laser

摘要

A direct nuclear radiation pumped laser consisting essentially of a uranyl salt with a UO2++ uranyl ion enriched in the U235 isotope sufficient to sustain a fission chain reaction, the uranyl ion being directly nuclear radiation pumped by a fission power transient of the core to produce laser action between a low-lying vibrational level of the first triplet electronic state and an upper vibrational level of the singlet ground state.