Chemical laser amplifier using a photon-branched reaction in an aerosol medium

An analysis is made of the possibility of a photon-branched process in a chemically active aerosol medium. The medium in question is that of a chemical DF–CO₂ laser in which disperse aluminum particles of definite concentration n and with an average radius r₀ are injected. When this medium is subjected to infrared laser radiation, aluminum is evaporated and interacts with fluorine to form free F atoms. It is shown that the proposed initiation method may be used to construct purely chemical pulsed amplifiers of coherent radiation with an energy gain 10–20.