Article on development of argon fluoride laser
Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2021 3:38 pm
"Argon fluoride laser could lead to practical fusion reactors"
https://newatlas.com/science/argon-fluo ... n-reactor/
https://newatlas.com/science/argon-fluo ... n-reactor/
The US Naval Research Laboratory is developing an Argon Fluoride (ArF) laser that may one day make fusion power a practical commercial technology. The wide-bandwidth ultraviolet laser is designed to have the shortest laser wavelength that can scale up to power a self-sustaining fusion reaction.
The new deep ultraviolet laser, also known as a laser driver, is claimed to transfer energy to the fuel bead with greater efficiency and produces much higher temperatures to generate the implosion. Using radiation hydrodynamics simulations the NRL scientists say that performance could be increased a hundredfold with an efficiency of 16 percent, compared to only 12 percent from the next most efficient krypton fluoride laser.