Tunable lasers for atomic vapor laser isotope separation

摘要

In a previous article Pryor (1) described the contribution of Australian physicists to advanced uranium isotope enrichment. His article centers on two approaches: a phase transition transfor-mation of UF6 known as the Ward process and molecular laser dissociation using CO_2 lasers. The first approach was a theoretical idea that was not demonstrated in practice but the molecular laser dissociation approach yielded many publications in international journals (1). In the same account Pryor writes "The AAEC considered an AVLIS program.