Laser Optics
Laser optics defines the science of producing coherent light of amplitudes sufficient to deliver energy at a distance. Laser light origination follows from a correlate of Einstein’s photoelectric effect that won him a Nobel Prize in 1925. When an energetic photon enters the Heisenberg uncertainty area of a electron shell, the quantum orbital absorbs the incident photon and reradiates the energy in a photon of lesser energy but of coherent nature as symbolized by Plank’s relation E= h times the frequency of the incident photon. The nature of the reradiated photon reflects the quantum level absorbing the incident photon and reradiating a coherent photon of lesser energy. For example, if a photon of energy x becomes captured by an orbital of radius y then the difference in energy levels between the absorbed photon and ground level orbital signifies the energy of coherent photon emitted as laser light. X1-xotimes 1/plank’s constant gives the frequency of resultant photon.
Lasing substrate
Transition metals that undergo oxidation states up to +6 become ideal candidates for laser substrates. Forming a crystal from transition metals or rare earth metals is the substrate for photons directly related to the quantum structure of the crystal atoms as specified by the periodic table of the elements. Corundum which is an allotrope of aluminum and silicon is the prototype ruby red laser of historical import. A crystal of gallium silicon or pure crystallized carbon yields lasers of characteristic frequency and intensity. In general, any atomic mass that can form a crystal lattice of various oxidation states is a candidate of being a laser substrate. The amount of Avogadro’s number of crystal atoms is proportional to the resultant emission of coherent photons.
The total Avogadro mass of laser substrate determine perigee amplitude of laser emission. The energy of incident radiation directly proportions to frequency of resultant emission.
Pumping a laser substrate
Incoherent light historically engenders the excitant energy of a ruby rod laser. ANY TYPE OF RADIANT ENERGY CAN AND WILL BE USED AS AN EXCITANT IN A LASER OPTIC SYSTEM. Light is the most obvious example. However, electromagnetic radiation can pump a laser substrate. Fast Neutrons can pump a laser substrate. Pure energy from antimatter annihilation can pump a laser to fearsome magnitude. Both nuclear reactions and hydrogen fusion can pump a laser substrate and tailor the resultant frequency and magnitude of emitted radiation.
Applications
As in all actions historically touched my mankind, the primordial application of applied physics is in warfare. Blasting lasers, melting lasers, drilling lasers will be used to destroy or render inoperable hardened sites or machines of war. In a peaceful environment huge industrial lasers will drill wells and mine shafts in seconds. Ultimately, energy will be transmitted not by electrons in high tension wires but by photons directly beamed to parabolic absorption units and converted to electrons by Einstein’s photoelectric effect and then used in households. Transmitting energy with light is more efficient and less transmission loss occurs. Information in data packets will be beamed at the speed of light and captured by absorption domes for processing. Fiber optic fibers have transmission loss due to total internal reflection.
The future
The future becomes the child of intrepid warriors who dare to be sublime.