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Nuclear-Pumped Lasers

Nuclear-Pumped Lasers


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1 Introduction to Nuclear-Pumped Lasers

2 Radiation Interaction With Matter

3 Direct Energy Conversion Principles as Applied to Lasers

4 Nuclear-Pumped Lasers

5 Reactor and Laser Coupling

6 Applications

Appendix 1: Neutron Cross Sections from Neutron Resonance Parameters and Thermal Cross Sections

Appendix 2: Plasma Basics

Appendix 3: Maxwell Boltzmann Distribution Function

Appendix 4: Thermal Neutron Cross Sections for Some Elements and Compounds (from Reactor Physics Constants ANL 5800 1963 for 2200 m/s Neutron Speed


About the Author:

Mark A. Prelas is a professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Missouri. Prelas received his doctorate from the University of Illinois. He has received numerous awards and recognition including being named a Presidential Young Investigator by the National Science Foundation in 1984, was a Gas Research Institute Fellow in 1981 working on the production of fuels from inorganic resources, was a Fulbright Fellow at the University of New South Wales in 1992, was named a fellow of the American Nuclear Society in 1999, was a William C. Foster Fellow with the U.S. Department of State in 1999-2000 where he served as a science adviser for the Bureau of Arms Control, and he received the Glenn Murphy Award from the American Society for Engineering Education in 2009 for his contributions to nuclear engineering education and research. He has also served as the senior scientist on a Strategic Defense Initiative project at the Idaho National Laboratory in 1987. In 2008 he was awarded the Frederick Joliot-Curie Medal from the Government of Russia and the Board of ISJAEE for his contributions to the field of direct energy conversion and his pioneering work on the development of photovoltaic cells from wide band-gap materials.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9783319369136
  • Publisher: Springer
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 417
  • Spine Width: 22 mm
  • Width: 156 mm
  • ISBN-10: 331936913X
  • Publisher Date: 23 Aug 2016
  • Edition: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 652 gr


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