Nozzle design yielding interferometrically flat fluid jets for use in single-mode dye lasers
Abstract
Fundamentals and design principles are presented for the generation of interferometrically flat jets of viscous fluids. The jet quality is optically analyzed and nozzle performance investigated in cw single-mode dye laser operation. A nozzle providing a dye jet with an optically flat area of 9 mm2 is described. It produces a single-mode bandwidth of ∼5 MHz without any active stabilization.
- Publication:
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Review of Scientific Instruments
- Pub Date:
- December 1982
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 1982RScI...53.1855H
- Keywords:
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- Continuous Wave Lasers;
- Dye Lasers;
- Jet Nozzles;
- Laser Interferometry;
- Laser Modes;
- Nozzle Design;
- Bandwidth;
- Design Analysis;
- Fluid Jets;
- Water Injection;
- Lasers and Masers