History of Science and Engineering Annotation << Back INVESTIGATION OF CHEMICALLY PUMPED SOLID STATE LASERS IN BINEPCP RAS (USSR ACADEMY OF SCIENCES) M.S. Drozdov, S.I. Svetlichnyi The article is devoted to the history of powerful autonomous light sources on the basis of explosions of gas mixtures in closed volumes (the so-called chemical-physical lamps and chemical-physical lasers). The simple mathematical, physically clear model of these lamps is given. The chemical-physical lamps may be used for solid-state lasers pumping, special spotlights, signal lights etc. Keywords: chemical light sources; pulsed lamps; gas explosions; chemical-physical lasers; history of scince. Contacts: Е-mail: drozdov@binep.ac.ru Pp. 063-077.