Tunable UV and IR picosecond pulse generation by nonlinear mixing using a synchronous mode-locked dye laser
Abstract
The short-pulse output from a synchronous mode-locked tunable dye laser was sum and difference mixed in nonlinear crystals of KDP, ADP and LiIO 3 with the 1.064-μm and 532-nm pulse trains from its mode-locked Nd: YAG pump. This method allowed efficient generation of narrow-bandwidth tunable short pulses in the uv from 270 to 432 nm and in the IR from 1.13 to 5.6 μm.
- Publication:
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Optics Communications
- Pub Date:
- January 1976
- DOI:
- 10.1016/0030-4018(76)90041-9
- Bibcode:
- 1976OptCo..16...21M
- Keywords:
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- Dye Lasers;
- Infrared Lasers;
- Laser Mode Locking;
- Tuning;
- Ultrashort Pulsed Lasers;
- Ultraviolet Lasers;
- Bandwidth;
- Crystal Optics;
- Oscillographs;
- Lasers and Masers