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High-energy picosecond pulses: design of a dye-laser-amplifier system

Journal Article · · Opt. Lett.; (United States)
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.7.000013· OSTI ID:5644795

A synchronously pumped dye laser is constructed that uses an actively mode-locked Q-switched Nd:YAG laser as the pump source. The system consists of a grating-tuned dye oscillator and two transversely pumped and one longitudinally pumped amplifier stages. Output energies of 1.5 mJ in a 20-psec pulse at 5700 A, corresponding to a peak power of 10/sup 8/ W, are obtained by using rhodamine 6G. The energy can be increased to 3 mJ at 25 psec FWHM. Characteristic of the amplification process employing short (50-psec) pump pulses are discussed.

Research Organization:
Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, New Jersey 07733
OSTI ID:
5644795
Journal Information:
Opt. Lett.; (United States), Journal Name: Opt. Lett.; (United States) Vol. 7:1; ISSN OPLED
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English