Efficient high-energy SHG using a triaxial flashlamp-pumped dye laser
Abstract
A triaxial flashlamp-pumped dye laser is described. It has sufficiently good beam quality to allow efficient high-energy SHG (second harmonic generation). This laser consists of a tunable oscillator and a single amplifier that operate in the vicinity of 610 nm. The harmonic generator is an angle-tuned KDP crystal that utilizes cylindrical focusing optics. Typical energy output at 305 nm is 100 mJ at a doubling efficiency of 12%.
- Publication:
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Applied Optics
- Pub Date:
- January 1980
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 1980ApOpt..19..124S
- Keywords:
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- Crystal Optics;
- Dye Lasers;
- Energy Conversion Efficiency;
- Harmonic Generations;
- Laser Outputs;
- Optical Pumping;
- High Power Lasers;
- Light Amplifiers;
- Nonlinear Optics;
- Potassium Phosphates;
- Tunable Lasers;
- Lasers and Masers;
- ULTRAVIOLET;
- LASERS: ULTRAVIOLET;
- LIDAR;
- LASERS: DYE