How Accurate is the Tech Speak about the Laser?
I'm wondering how accurate Chris's explanation of the laser solution is -- in other words, is it actually possible to build such a laser, would it work as seen in the flick, is it all just sci-fi technobabble, etc?
I transcribed the scene, without Kent's interruption, as follows:
It is possible to synthesize excited bromide in an argon matrix. Yes. It's an excimer, frozen in its excited state. It's a chemical laser, but in solid, not gaseous form. Put simply, in deference to you, Kent, it's like lasing a stick of dynamite.share
As soon as we apply a field, we couple to a state, that is radiatively coupled to the ground state.
I figure we can extract at least ten to the twenty-first photons per cubic centimeter, which will give one kilojoule per centimeter at six hundred nanometers, or one megajoule per litre.