US-FRG Cooperative Research on the Development of Short Wavelength Lasers Pumped by Heavy Ion Beams

该奖项支持罗格斯大学的Daniel E.Murnick博士与慕尼黑工业大学物理系的Andreas Ulrich博士在物理研究方面进行合作。他们将研究重离子束激发的物质的光发射，目标是开发新的短波长激光器。我们将研究真空紫外区重离子束泵浦气体的新光谱，在选定的跃迁上有可能获得可测量的增益。规划和试验性设计将在美国和西德进行。实验将在西德达姆施塔特的GSI重离子加速器设施进行，该设施具有进行这些研究的独特能力。还将在两国进行数据分析和评估。互访将为项目的试验和分析阶段提供便利。重离子束泵浦提供了一种激光激发技术，对于生产短波长高功率激光器具有潜在的重要意义。到目前为止，激发态形成和衰变的物理研究一直是当前研究的重要领域。最近的加速器进步现在可以产生非常密集、聚焦良好的光束，这对重离子惯性约束聚变和短波长激光物理研究都是有用的。拟议中的合作将使用一种独特的新的重离子同步加速器，SIS，刚刚在西德的达姆施塔特完成，以探索令人兴奋的潜在的新的短波长激光物理和光源。通过发现和研究稠密等离子体中重离子相互作用的新物理，这项研究应该会产生重要的新的基础结果。

This award supports Dr. Daniel E. Murnick of Rutgers University to collaborate in physics research with Dr. Andreas Ulrich of the Physics Department of the Technical University of Munich. They will study the optical emission from matter excited by heavy ion beams, with the goal of developing new short wavelength lasers. New spectroscopy in the vacuum ultraviolet region, from heavy ion beam pumped gases, will be studied with measureable gain possible on selected transitions. Planning and experimental design will take place both in the U.S. and West Germany. Experiments will be conducted at the GSI heavy ion accelerator facility in Darmstadt, West Germany, which has unique capabilities for these studies. Data analysis and evaluation will also be carried out in both countries. Reciprocal visits will facilitate both the experimental and the analytical phases of the project. Heavy ion beam pumping provides a laser excitation technique which is potentially significant for producing short wavelength high power lasers. The study of the physics of the excited state formation and decay until now has been the most important area of current research. Recent accelerator advances now allow the production of very intensive, well focused beams which are useful both for heavy ion inertial confinement fusion and short wavelength laser physics research. The proposed collaboration will use a unique new heavy ion synchrotron, the SIS, just completed in Darmstadt, West Germany, to probe exciting new potential short wavelength laser physics and sources. The research should lead to important new fundamental results, through the discovery and study of new physics of heavy ion interactions in dense plasmas.