Original poster: Jim Lux <jimlux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> At 03:36 PM 6/15/2006, you wrote:
Original poster: Gomez Addams <gomezaddams@xxxxxxxxx> Did you guys know that some folks (notably some Russians, I have a white paper on it around somewhere) played around with making copper vapor lasers via exploding wires for the pumping process? Pretty impressive, but not very practical, apparently.
It's also been done in the U.S. Fairly large wires, many kJ. Quite impressive from what I've been told.