Narrow band infrared picosecond pulses tunable between 1. 2 and 1. 4. mu. m generated by a travelling-wave dye laser

Journal Article · Thu Mar 01 04:00:00 EST 1984 · IEEE J. Quant. Electron.; (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1109/JQE.1984.1072373· OSTI ID:6453764

Elsaesser, T; Polland, H J

A novel type of picosecond light source is the traveling-wave dye laser. It consists of a generator and an amplifier cell, both pumped by single pulses. Using the fast switching dye No.5 with a fluorescence quantum efficiency of 5 x 10/sup -4/, one obtains an energy conversion of the pump to the IR pulse of up to 10 percent. The spectral width of the IR pulses is 15 cm/sup -1/ over the tunability range of 1.18-1.4..mu..m. At 1.33 ..mu..m we observe Gaussian shaped pulses of 4.4 ps duration for pump pulses of 4.5 ps generated by a mode-locked Nd:glass laser. The output pulses show a high stability with a jitter of less than 0.2 ps.

• Research Organization: Physik Department der Technischen Universitat Munchen, Munchen
• OSTI ID: 6453764
• Journal Information: IEEE J. Quant. Electron.; (United States), Journal Name: IEEE J. Quant. Electron.; (United States) Vol. QE-20:3; ISSN IEJQA
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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