Solvent dependent characteristics of XeCl pumped UV dye lasers
Abstract
The characteristics of near uv dye lasers pumped with short duration, 308 nm pulses from a XeCl laser are described with particular emphasis on the parameters influencing high average power operation. The solvent is shown to effect the operation of all dye lasers studied, particularly the photochemical stability. Measurements of the efficiency, as a function of the integrated pump energy have been made for a series of dye-solvent combinations. With the best combinations, average output powers in excess of 1W and conversion efficiencies greater than 25% were obtained at a repetition rate of ∼100 Hz.
- Publication:
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Applied Physics
- Pub Date:
- May 1981
- DOI:
- 10.1007/BF00935386
- Bibcode:
- 1981ApPhy..25...17C
- Keywords:
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- Dye Lasers;
- Laser Pumping;
- Rare Gas-Halide Lasers;
- Ultraviolet Lasers;
- Xenon Compounds;
- Chlorides;
- Energy Conversion Efficiency;
- Excimer Lasers;
- High Power Lasers;
- Photodecomposition;
- Pulsed Lasers;
- Solvents;
- Lasers and Masers;
- PACS 42.55 - 82.50;
- 42.55;
- 82.50