
Originally Posted by
mixedgas
Maybe before mechath slowly dies of Photonlexiconium poisoning he could redeem himself by telling us the "sekret" of fast green in his own words. If he knows.... When this thread dies, I'll post it, as he leaked enough over on the other thread for me to make a way overeducated guess. How overeducated, well, to give him a clue, I wrote this:
Photonlexiconium Slow Nuclear Poisioning (PLSNP) is very similar to Polonium poisoning, only it is administered by keyboard, not orally. Few people have ever been able to obtain Photonlexiconium, as it is rumored to come from a unlicensed combination server/fast breeder reactor someplace in Georgia, USA.
Relevence to lasers: see US Pat 3783405 , polonium for cleaning laser cavities.
Polonium, melts at 249 C , and slowly sublimes at room temperature, making it appear at first glance, a strong candidate for a HePo metal vapor laser , The fact that it has a filled outer shell similar to that of Argon, Krypton and Cadmium suggests a strong possibility of dozens of visible lines. However only 100 grams are produced a year (1) and similar metal vapor lasers need typically 10 grams. With 27 known isotopes present in the lasing mixture, linewidth broadening similar to that which occurs in he-cads using non isotopic cadmium(2) would knock the gain down on any given line to near zero. A way around this is to reduce the number of isotopes present. This need for isotopically pure Po suggests that there are only two entities in the world who could build a Po Laser and one that could attain a PL laser. Due to its intense alpha emission, a Po laser would be self heating at the metal resivoir.(1) Po decays to Pb, which is not known for its visible lines(3) Po, with its half life of 136 days, does not stay stable for long, making the odds of Sugeek finding a working one on ebay any time soon nil. If he did, he would be fine unless the tube was cracked during shipping. Sadly, having characteristics similar to and surpassing Transparent Aluminum(4) , no one has ever been able to see Photonlexiconium, making it difficult to determine its properties.
REF(1) the polonium wiki.
REF(2) Silfvast, Laser Fundamentals, 1996, Cambridge Univ. Press.
REF(3) Handbook of Laser Wavelengths, CRC Press Boca Raton Fl.
REF(4) Scott et Al, Star Trek IV. 1986
So Mechath, if I write fiction like that, wait till you see how I write reality. Why don't you tell us about how you achieved fast green, and we might petition Admin to let you stay.
Steve