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In previous chapters, we have reviewed pum** methods for gas-medium and condensed-medium lasers using nuclear reactors as neutron sources. We also reviewed the characteristics of these lasers and the potential to use them in different nuclear-laser devices. The highest specific power depositions for gas media (q ≤ 5 kW/cm3) can be obtained if a laser cell that has a uranium layer or is filled with 3Не is placed inside the core of a pulsed reactor at the minimal possible pulse length for pulsed reactors, ~100 μs. However, these specific power depositions are sometimes not sufficient to reach the lasing threshold of certain active media.
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Melnikov, S.P., Sizov, A.N., Sinyanskii, A.A., Miley, G.H. (2015). Gas Lasers Excited by Radiation from Nuclear Explosions. In: Lasers with Nuclear Pum**. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08882-2_12
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