ISSN:
1089-7623
Source:
AIP Digital Archive
Topics:
Physics
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Electrical Engineering, Measurement and Control Technology
Notes:
A compact, high-peak-power, user-friendly, single-longitudinal-mode (SLM) tunable dye laser has been developed. The device yields (approximately-greater-than)12 mJ pulses of 6 ns duration and ∼2.7×transform-limited linewidths of 〈200 MHz. Seamless single-mode tunability of (approximately-greater-than)20 cm−1 is possible without resetting. The dye laser makes efficient use of the pump laser, with ∼10% conversion of the 532 nm pump energy to tunable dye power and occupies 〈4 m2 (including pump laser and all diagnostics). The linewidth of the device can be switched from 〈200 MHz SLM operation to 〈0.5 cm−1 broadband modeless operation by moving one mirror. This allows rapid interchange between high-resolution scanning and a "fast survey scan'' mode of operation to isolate the spectral region of interest at low resolution.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1144612
