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[Sephlock]

In MW:O, and in Battletech in general.

I know they aren't chemical lasers: http://www.sarna.net..._Chemical_Laser

So... what are they? How is it that they never run out of ammo? Is it ever explained in the fluff?

[MustrumRidcully]

Isn't the other variant of laser using crystals or lenses that focus the light?

http://en.wikipedia....ve_laser_medium

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Examples of active laser media include:

• Certain crystals, typically doped with rare-earth ions (e.g. neodymium, ytterbium, or erbium) or transition metal ions (titanium or chromium); most often yttrium aluminium garnet (YAG), yttrium orthovanadate (YVO₄), or sapphire (Al₂O₃);^[1]
  
• Glasses, e.g. silicate or phosphate glasses, doped with laser-active ions;^[2]
  
• Gases, e.g. mixtures of helium and neon (HeNe), nitrogen, argon, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, or metal vapors;^[3]
  
• Semiconductors, e.g. gallium arsenide (GaAs), indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs), or gallium nitride (GaN).^[4]
  
• Liquids, in the form of dye solutions as used in dye lasers.^[5][6]

I suspect Battletech Laser are using Unobtanium Crystals.


If you go by the description of PPCs, you wonder why they never run out of ammo.

Edited by MustrumRidcully, 04 March 2013 - 05:17 AM.