Abstract
As its name implies, coherent up conversion would allow nuclear materials to be pumped with an intense but conventional coherent source such as a laser. Threshold powers would be much lower than usually projected for a gamma ray laser, and the pump sources could be drawn from a more mature technology. Unfortunately, the lack of a laser grade data base of nuclear properties prevents the selection of usable material from the group of twenty-nine first-class candidates already identified.
© 1987 Optical Society of America
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