Solid-State ${}^{229}\mathrm{Th}$ Nuclear Laser with Two-Photon Pumping

Haowei Xu, Hao Tang, Guoqing Wang +4

The radiative excitation of the 8.3 eV isomeric state of thorium-229 is an outstanding challenge due to the lack of tunable far-ultraviolet (F-UV) sources. In this work, we propose…