Tunable, high-power, subpicosecond blue-green dye laser system with a two-stage dye amplifier

Journal Article · Fri May 01 04:00:00 EDT 1992 · IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); (United States)

OSTI ID:5566879

Sharp, T F; Dane, C B; Barber, D; Tittel, F K; Wisoff, P J ^[1]

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1. Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice Univ., Houston, TX (US)

This paper reports on a two-stage dye amplifier design that has been developed to amplify tunable, blue=green, subpicosecond dye laser pulses which are generated from a hybrid synchronously mode-locked dye oscillator directly (800 fs) or shorter to 200 fs by a fiber compressor stage. This system has achieved single pulse energies of 2mJ, with an amplified spontaneous emission content of less than 0.1%. Using 40 mJ of the third-harmonic output of an Nd:YAG regenerative amplifier to pump the dye amplifier system, these pulse energies represent an energy extraction efficiency of {approximately}5%. The tunability, stability, and spatial and temporal quality of throughput pulses from the system have also been characterized.

• OSTI ID: 5566879
• Journal Information: IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); (United States), Journal Name: IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); (United States) Vol. 27:5; ISSN 0018-9197; ISSN IEJQA
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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42 ENGINEERING
426002* -- Engineering-- Lasers & Masers-- (1990-)
AMPLIFIERS
DESIGN
DYE LASERS
ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT
EMISSION
ENERGY SPECTRA
ENERGY-LEVEL TRANSITIONS
EQUIPMENT
LASERS
LIQUID LASERS
MODE LOCKING
NEODYMIUM LASERS
PHASE STABILITY
PULSE AMPLIFIERS
PULSES
SOLID STATE LASERS
SPECTRA
STABILITY
STIMULATED EMISSION