Chemical Lasers
Basov, Nikolay G. / Bashkin, Anatoly S. / Shcheglov, Vladimir A. / Igoshin, Valery I. / Oraevsky, Anatoly N. / Kittell, Sergei G.
The rapid development of lasers in the past few decades has led to their application in almost every field of science and technology. The idea that it should be possible to convert the energy released in chemical reactions of chemical lasers directly into coherent radiation resulted in the advent in the 1960s. These first chemical lasers, however, consumed much more energy to initiate the reaction than they emitted. The search for more ef fic...