Lasers with Nuclear Pumping

George Miley, University of Illionis, ghmiley@illionis.edu Sergey Petrovich Melnikov, The Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF), melnikov@expd.vniief.ru Alexandr Nikolaevich Sizov, The Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF) Anatolii Alexandrovich Sinyanskii,  The Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF)

• General Issues.- Organization of Experiments On Pulsed Reactors to Seek and Study Nuclear-pumped Lasers.- Investigations of Reactor-pumped Gas NPLs.- Basic Parameters of Nuclear-excited Plasma.- Lasing Mechanisms and Kinetic Models of NPLs.- Nuclear-pumped Laser Devices Based on Gas Media.- Energy Deposition in Gas NPL Active Media.- Optical Inhomogeneities in Sealed NPLs.- Specific Features of NPLs with a Flowing Gas Medium.- Design Concepts for Stationary Reactor Lasers.- Studies of Condensed-media NPLs.- Gas Lasers Excited by Ratiation from Nuclear Explosions.- Comments About Nuclera-Pumped Laser Reserach in the United States.