Laser absorption under saturation conditions with allowance for spectral hole burning
Abstract
A set of equations is derived that describe the spectral hole burning that arises in a saturating laser pulse as it propagates through a resonantly absorbing atomic vapor. The analysis has been compared with earlier experimental measurements of laser energy attenuation and found to be in excellent agreement provided little excitation or ionization occurs.
- Publication:
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Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer
- Pub Date:
- January 1983
- DOI:
- 10.1016/0022-4073(83)90140-1
- Bibcode:
- 1983JQSRT..29....9M
- Keywords:
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- Absorption Spectroscopy;
- Laser Spectroscopy;
- Photoabsorption;
- Pulsed Lasers;
- Sodium Vapor;
- Atomic Excitations;
- Energy Absorption;
- Gas Ionization;
- Nonlinear Optics;
- Radiative Transfer;
- Saturation;
- Lasers and Masers