Title :
High-efficiency tunable CW dye laser
Author :
Dienes, Andrew ; Ippen, Erich P. ; Shank, Charles V.
Author_Institution :
Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc., Holmdel, NJ, USA
fDate :
3/1/1972 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
An output power of 1 W is reported from a tunable CW dye laser pumped by 3.5 W of argon laser radiation. The nearly 30 percent conversion efficiency is achieved by using a very low-loss folded 3-mirror cavity and by pumping through a Brewster-angle dispersing prism.
Keywords :
Argon; Laser excitation; Laser feedback; Laser mode locking; Laser transitions; Laser tuning; Mirrors; Power lasers; Pump lasers; Tunable circuits and devices;
Journal_Title :
Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of
DOI :
10.1109/JQE.1972.1076965
