Direct solar-pumped iodine laser amplifier. Semiannual progress report, 1 March-31 August 1986
In order to evaluate the feasibility of the solar pumped dye laser, the parametric study of a dye laser amplifier pumped by a solar simulator and flashlamp was carried out, and the amplifier gains were measured at various pump beam irradiances on the dye cell. Rhodamine 6G was considered as a candidate for the solar pumped laser because of its good utilization of the solar spectrum and high quantum efficiency. The measurement shows that a solar concentration of 20,000 is required to reach the threshold of the dye. The work to construct a kinetic model algorithm which predicts the output parameter of laser was progressed. The kinetic model was improved such that there is good agreement between the theoretical model and experimental data for the systems defined previously as flashlamp pumped laser oscillator, and the long path length solar pumped laser.
- Research Organization:
- Hampton Inst., VA (USA)
- OSTI ID:
- 5983076
- Report Number(s):
- N-87-26328; NASA-CR-180296; NAS-1.26:180296
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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420300* -- Engineering-- Lasers-- (-1989)
AMPLIFIERS
ANALOG SYSTEMS
CHEMICAL LASERS
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
DATA
DYE LASERS
EFFICIENCY
ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT
ELEMENTS
EQUIPMENT
EXPERIMENTAL DATA
FUNCTIONAL MODELS
HALOGENS
INFORMATION
IODINE
LASERS
LIQUID LASERS
NONMETALS
NUMERICAL DATA
PUMPING
QUANTUM EFFICIENCY
RADIATIONS
SIMULATORS
SOLAR RADIATION
STELLAR RADIATION