Title :
A 200 W average power, narrow bandwidth, tunable waveguide dye laser
Author :
Mazzinghi, Piero ; Burlamacchi, Pio ; Matera, Manlio ; Ranea-Sandoval, H.F. ; Salimbeni, Renzo ; Vanni, Umberto
Author_Institution :
Istituto di Elettronica Quantistica, Firenze, Italy
fDate :
11/1/1981 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
A planar waveguide dye laser, driven by commercial xenon flashlamps with an average power output of 200 W at 50 pulse per second (pps) is described. Due to the planar structure, a narrow bandwidth operation down to 10 GHz has been obtained with a single grating arranged at grazing incidence. With this configuration, high overall efficiency up to 0.6 percent has been obtained, partially due to energy conversion of the broad-band emission spectrum of the flash-lamps by circulating an appropriate dye solution between flashlamps and reflectors.
Keywords :
Dye lasers; Laser tuning; Pulsed lasers; Waveguide lasers; Bandwidth; Energy conversion; Laser excitation; Laser tuning; Optical pulses; Planar waveguides; Power lasers; Pump lasers; Tunable circuits and devices; Waveguide lasers;
Journal_Title :
Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of
DOI :
10.1109/JQE.1981.1070686
