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Teller's concept was never once tested in practice. Supposedly you can detonate a nuke and in the microseconds before the laser chambers are vapourized you can
achieve an X-ray laser blast. Smells like BS, because it is BS. Lasers do not pump up instantaneously and the amplification chambers do not have arbitrary energy
density capacity. The nuke blast X-ray flux will overload any such chamber instantly. In fact, it is this overload that will delete the chamber before it can achieve
an X-ray population inversion. Nukes are only useful for diffuse blasts with neutrons, X-rays and general EM radiation. They are not laser engines.
The above is relevant for any discussion of lasers. Having some tubes with the right all material to scatter X-ray photons (good luck!) is not a laser it is a light
duct.
achieve an X-ray laser blast. Smells like BS, because it is BS. Lasers do not pump up instantaneously and the amplification chambers do not have arbitrary energy
density capacity. The nuke blast X-ray flux will overload any such chamber instantly. In fact, it is this overload that will delete the chamber before it can achieve
an X-ray population inversion. Nukes are only useful for diffuse blasts with neutrons, X-rays and general EM radiation. They are not laser engines.
The above is relevant for any discussion of lasers. Having some tubes with the right all material to scatter X-ray photons (good luck!) is not a laser it is a light
duct.
