Simulation of NPL in experiments with e-beam pumping

Abstract

The main goals of this review article are to show, on the basis of the results accumulated in this field, achievements in simulating the processes in nuclear pumped laser (NPL) active media by experiments on e-beam pumping, and to give a number of characteristic experimental examples, when this simulation has improved understanding of the inversion population processes in NPL active media (Cd+, Xe-lasers) or generated interest in experiments with fission fragments excitation (Ne-laser). In the case of the population of laser operation levels in non-equilibrium recombinating plasma, one can say with sufficient accuracy that the inversion population mechanism is identical for both excitation types.