Nuclear-Pumped Lasers
This book focuses on Nuclear-Pumped Laser (NPL) technology and provides the reader with a fundamental understanding of NPLs, a review of research in the field, and exploration of large scale NPL system design and applications. Early chapters look at the f
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NuclearPumped Lasers
Nuclear-Pumped Lasers
Mark Prelas
Nuclear-Pumped Lasers
Mark Prelas Electrical & Computer Engineering Department University of Missouri Columbia, MO, USA
ISBN 978-3-319-19844-6 ISBN 978-3-319-19845-3 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-19845-3
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Preface
The book Nuclear-Pump Lasers evolved from a graduate level course (titled Nuclear-Pumped Lasers and Applications) that I developed and taught during the summer of 1985 as part of the nuclear engineering curriculum at the University of Missouri. There were two motivating factors for developing and teaching this course. The first was that the US Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) program had been proposed by President Ronald Regan on March 23, 1983, and the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization (SDIO) was set up in 1984 within the US Department of Defense to oversee SDI. The second reason was that two efforts within the SDI program centered on nuclear-pumped laser technologies: the Centaurus and the Falcon programs. The g
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