Sandia Operates Picosecond Laser at 50‐Joule Output
JUN 01, 1969
DOI: 10.1063/1.3035623
A laser that emits 50 joules in about 2 picoseconds is now running at Sandia Laboratories in Albuquerque. Its basic input is the train of pulses from a mode‐locked neodymium‐doped glass laser. Garth Gobeli, Eric Jones, Paul Peercy and James Bushnell hope to use the short high‐energy pulse to produce among other things thermonuclear reactions.
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© 1969 American Institute of Physics
