Abstract
As its name implies, coherent upconversion would allow nuclear materials to be pumped with an intense but conventional coherent source such as a laser. Threshold powers would be much lower than usually projected for a gamma ray laser, and the pump sources could be drawn from a more mature technology.
© 1986 Optical Society of America
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