Laser having simultaneous ultraviolet and visible wavelengths

Patent · Tue Oct 13 04:00:00 EDT 1981

OSTI ID:5767972

Burnham, R L

A method and system are discolsed for extraction of visible optical energy from gas lasers having simultaneous ultraviolet and visible transitions. In this disclosed method, stimulated emission on the uv transition of rare-gas halide molecules is converted to a wavelength which coincides with the wavelength of the visible transition using a dye laser cell mounted in a common optical cavity with the visible laser. Excitation of the rare-gas halide laser produces high gain uv and low gain visible transitions. The uv is focused into a visible dye cell, and stimulated emission occurs in the dye cell which is contained in an optical cavity also containing the gas laser. The stimulated emission of the dye cell is amplified by the discharge-pumped gas laser medium. Since the gain of the dye laser is very high, the arrangement allows laser emission at the visible wavelength to build-up very rapidly during the gas laser excitation discharge pulse. Laser emission has been produced over a waveguide bandwidth between 460 and 510 nm.

• Assignee: U S Of America Navy Secretary Of
• Patent Number(s): US 4295104
• OSTI ID: 5767972
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

42 ENGINEERING
420300* -- Engineering-- Lasers-- (-1989)
AMPLIFICATION
DYE LASERS
ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION
ELEMENTS
EMISSION
ENERGY-LEVEL TRANSITIONS
FLUIDS
GAIN
GAS LASERS
GASES
LASER CAVITIES
LASERS
LIQUID LASERS
NONMETALS
RADIATIONS
RARE GASES
SPECTRA
STIMULATED EMISSION
ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION
VISIBLE SPECTRA
WAVELENGTHS