• DocumentCode
    414763
  • Title

    Very high average power 1.6-μm nuclear-pumped laser for space propulsion

  • Author

    Boody, Frederick P.

  • Author_Institution
    Ion Light Technol. GmbH, Bad Abbach, Germany
  • fYear
    2003
  • fDate
    22-27 June 2003
  • Firstpage
    35
  • Abstract
    It is proposed that multiple sub-critical cylindrical-geometry nuclear-pumped laser (NPL) arrays, with longitudinal cooing flow, driven by pulsed reactors at low duty cycle (100 ms pulses at 1 Hz). He did not discuss the effects of pump intensity and solid-state laser (SSL) pulse rate on SSL efficiency or pump intensity on SSL cooling, which is very important at higher duty cycle. A 200-MW CW module for up-conversion pumping Pr+3:LaCl3 is discussed in a companion paper.
  • Keywords
    aerospace propulsion; lanthanum compounds; laser arrays; laser beam applications; laser beams; nuclear pumped lasers; praseodymium; 1 Hz; 1.6 micron; 100 ms; 200 MW; LaCl3:Pr+3; duty cycle; high average power; longitudinal cooing flow; nuclear-pumped laser; pulsed reactor; space propulsion; Argon; Helium; Inductors; Laser ablation; Laser excitation; Optical pulses; Power lasers; Propulsion; Pump lasers; Solid lasers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe, 2003. CLEO/Europe. 2003 Conference on
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-7734-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEOE.2003.1312097
  • Filename
    1312097
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=414763