A new blue-green XeF(C-A) excimer laser amplifier concept
Abstract
The feasibility of using the electrically excited XeF(C-A) excimer medium as an efficient wideband amplifier in the blue-green region of the spectrum has been investigated. Calculations show that for an intense blue-green optical flux input the amplification characteristics of XeF(C-A) improve, as a result of both bleaching of the pump induced absorbers and by additional production of XeF(C) level population. The removal of one of the major absorbing species, Xe (double asterisk) in thef XeF (C-A) laser mixture by means of a pulsed ruby laser probe beam has been demonstrated.
- Publication:
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Applied Physics B Photophysics Laser Chemistry
- Pub Date:
- December 1984
- Bibcode:
- 1984ApPPL..35..227N
- Keywords:
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- Broadband Amplifiers;
- Excimer Lasers;
- Lasing;
- Light Amplifiers;
- Pulsed Lasers;
- Xenon Fluoride Lasers;
- Argon;
- Dye Lasers;
- Electron Beams;
- Laser Pumping;
- Photoionization;
- Ruby Lasers;
- Lasers and Masers