Wideband tuning of a XeCl laser-pumped dye-doped sol-gel silica laser

Author

Lam, K.S. ; Lo, D. ; Wong, K.H.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys., Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong

Volume

7

Issue

3

fYear

1995

fDate

3/1/1995 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

306

Lastpage

308

Abstract

Doped and undoped silica slabs were fabricated using the sol-gel technique. Extended UV transmission was observed for HCl-catalysed sol-gel silica. Under transverse pumping by a XeCl laser, narrowband (<0.9 nm) laser oscillation from rhodamine perchlorate (R640)-doped silica slabs was achieved in an echelle grating resonator cavity. Tuning of the R640 silica laser extended from 627 nm to 670 nm.<>

Keywords

diffraction gratings; dye lasers; laser cavity resonators; laser tuning; optical fabrication; optical pumping; organic compounds; sol-gel processing; solid lasers; (R640)-doped silica slabs; 627 to 670 nm; HCl; HCl-catalysed sol-gel silica; R640 silica laser tuning; UV transmission; XeCl; XeCl laser; doped silica slabs; dye-doped sol-gel silica laser; echelle grating resonator cavity; laser pumping; narrowband laser oscillation; rhodamine perchlorate; sol-gel technique; transverse pumping; undoped silica slabs; wideband tuning; Glass; Laser beam cutting; Laser excitation; Laser tuning; Optical resonators; Pump lasers; Silicon compounds; Slabs; Tunable circuits and devices; Wideband;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.372754

Filename

372754