Prism preexpanded grazing-incidence grating cavity for pulsed dye lasers
Journal Article
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· Appl. Opt.; (United States)
A modification to the grazing-incidence grating cavity for pulsed dye lasers is described whereby a prism is employed to expand the intracavity beam by a small factor before illumination of the grating. Suitable choice of the angles of incidence at both prism and grating permits good spectral resolution to be obtained while overall cavity losses are minimized. The performance characteristics of the modified cavity are analyzed and compared with those of simple grazing-incidence grating cavities. Spectral linewidths <0.01 A have been obtained at relatively high efficiencies (7--10%) for coumarin 500 dye pumped with a pulsed N/sub 2/ laser.
- Research Organization:
- Macquarie University, School of Mathematics ampersand Physics, North Ryde, N.S.W. 2113 Australia
- OSTI ID:
- 6121792
- Journal Information:
- Appl. Opt.; (United States), Journal Name: Appl. Opt.; (United States) Vol. 20:12; ISSN APOPA
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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