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Can you make a laser by using gamma rays as the energy wave source
Category: Science > Physics Asked by: redbaron007-ga List Price: $50.00 |
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08 Feb 2006 19:22 PST
Expires: 10 Mar 2006 19:22 PST Question ID: 443407 |
I'm just wondering why and if lasers are restricted to the visible light spectrum. If we edge up thru ultra violet waves, and keep going...all the way to gamma waves, and we could focus them thru a laser, what are the possibilities of making electricity, either by the laser pushing electrons thru a wire, or by physically turning something (like a dynamo) to produce electricity. The power would be comming from the high energy produced by focused gamma radiation, and either physically pushing something, or???. Is there any magnetic field associated with gamma rays? Can you make a laser out of a magnetic field?(ie focus/concentrate a magnetic field?- which could be used to generate electricity?) |
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Re: Can you make a laser by using gamma rays as the energy wave source
From: pinkfreud-ga on 08 Feb 2006 19:24 PST |
You may find this interesting: http://www.utdallas.edu/research/quantum/cqeseg3.htm |
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Re: Can you make a laser by using gamma rays as the energy wave source
From: qed100-ga on 09 Feb 2006 04:10 PST |
Hello, The question of a gamma-wavelength laser may be interesting in itself, but you seem to think it'd be useful as an energy source. Even if you use such a laser to subsequently generate electricity, what is the source of energy to power the gamma laser? Regarding your question on laser wavelengths, the laser principle is known to work outside visible light in at least one bandwidth, microwaves. The word laser was originally coined as an acronym for [L]ight [A]mplification by [S]timulated [E]mission of [R]adiation: L.A.S.E.R. A microwave laser is a M.A.S.E.R. Historically, the maser was demonstrated in the laboratory before the laser. |
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Re: Can you make a laser by using gamma rays as the energy wave source
From: azdoug-ga on 10 Feb 2006 20:37 PST |
Fission produces lots and lots of gammas... there's your source. Just don't get near it. I'm wondering if you could resonate a piezoelectric crystal with gamma, and generate small amounts of electricity. Then move to a much bigger scale. There is some research going into creating light (like from an LED for example), transporting it, and then converting it back into electricity (with a PV cell for example). The benefit is the near lossless transportation. The problem is the inefficiecy of the conversion process. |
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