Abstract

Nuclear excitation by fission fragments can potentially be used to pump very large high-power gas lasers owing to a high energy capacity of fission reactor systems and a high penetration ability of neutrons in a multiplication media. The experimental investigations directed to search effective laser media for nuclear pumping and their parameter measurements are actual to date. In this work the observation of laser action and measurement of main laser parameters for 1.73-µm line in Ar-Xe medium excited by 2-MeV proton beam have been made.

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