Title : 
Pulsed power for lasers: past, present, future
         
        
        
            Author_Institution : 
Rutherford Appleton Lab., Chilton, UK
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
The author gives a personal view of the history of the laser with an emphasis on pulsed power. The author discusses various types of laser including: flashlamp-pumped dye lasers, the TEA CO2 laser, halide lasers, and fusion lasers
         
        
            Keywords : 
pulsed power technology; TEA CO2 laser; flashlamp-pumped dye lasers; fusion lasers; halide lasers; lasers; pulsed power;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Pulsed Power '97 (Digest No: 1997/075), IEE Colloquium on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
London
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1049/ic:19970394