Tunable, 178-nm iodine anti-Stokes Raman laser
Abstract
The first known observation of tunable, VUV-stimulated emission by anti-Stokes Raman scattering is reported. A metastable population inversion is created with respect to the I ground state by selective photodissociation of NaI. With a 206-nm pump laser to drive the Raman process, anti-Stokes Raman-laser radiation at 178 nm was generated with a pulse energy of 35 microjoules and was tunable over 10 per cm.
- Publication:
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Optics Letters
- Pub Date:
- May 1982
- DOI:
- 10.1364/OL.7.000204
- Bibcode:
- 1982OptL....7..204W
- Keywords:
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- Iodine Lasers;
- Population Inversion;
- Raman Lasers;
- Tunable Lasers;
- Ultraviolet Lasers;
- Ground State;
- Laser Pumping;
- Light Scattering;
- Photodissociation;
- Sodium Iodides;
- Stimulated Emission;
- Lasers and Masers;
- SCATTERING: RAMAN;
- LASERS;
- LASERS: ULTRAVIOLET