Accession Number:

ADA000038

Title:

Investigation of Generation and Propagation of Intense Radiation.

Descriptive Note:

Final rept. Mar 73-Mar 74,

Corporate Author:

ARIZONA UNIV TUCSON OPTICAL SCIENCES CENTER

Personal Author(s):

• Hopf,F. A.
• Ragovin,D. N.
• Sargent,M. , III
• Sully,M. O.
• Shih,H.

Report Date:

1974-08-01

Pagination or Media Count:

41.0

Abstract:

The described research provided fundamental theoretical support of the high-energy laser program, particularly with regard to concepts germane to that program several years hence. The work has centered in four major areas propagation of intense radiation, laser theory, amplifier theory and molecular physics particularly of the water molecule. This report summarizes the work completed under the contract and provides references to more detailed accounts of that work published elsewhere. Included are abstracts of papers published or to be published elsewhere. Among the highlights of the collected final report are a strikingly successful, yet simple, model of the H2O molecule a very promising scheme for a soft X-ray laser further advances in the multimode unstable resonator theory and justification of the rate equation approach to treating lasers with cascade transitions.

Descriptors:

• *ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION
• *LASERS
• *WATER VAPOR
• RING LASERS
• MOLECULAR VIBRATION
• QUANTUM THEORY
• THEORY
• ABSTRACTS
• SATURATION
• LIGHT PULSES
• CHARGE TRANSFER
• TRANSITIONS
• RESONATORS
• ABSORPTION
• AMPLIFIERS
• PARTICLE COLLISIONS
• MOLECULAR ORBITALS
• SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH

Subject Categories:

• Lasers and Masers
• Atomic and Molecular Physics and Spectroscopy
• Electromagnetic Pulses

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE