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A Purely Chemical Nitrogen Dioxide Laser, Conrado Mendoza Malalis
A Purely Chemical Nitrogen Dioxide Laser, Conrado Mendoza Malalis
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Purely chemical lasers promise to provide future high-power lasers for remote installations, airplanes, ships and in space without the necessity of external electric power, sources.
This study is about the design and construction of a new, gas phase purely chemical NO2 laser, based on the reaction of NO + O3 + NO≠2 + O2. The vibrationally excited NO≠2 species at 1-40 mm Hg total pressure is the source of energy (photons) for the laser. A series of computer program calculations on the reaction kinetics and relaxational processes involved have also been made, …