Passive compression of KrCl excimer laser pulses in naphthalene solutions
Abstract
The width of KrCl laser pulses has been compressed from 5.2 ns to less than 800 ps using naphthalene as the saturable absorber dye. It was found that the width of the compressed laser pulse decreased with both the input laser intensity and the concentration of naphthalene in the solution. The pulse shortening mechanism is attributed to excited state S 2-S n transitions in naphthalene.
- Publication:
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Optics Communications
- Pub Date:
- September 1984
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 1984OptCo..51..181H
- Keywords:
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- Excimer Lasers;
- Naphthalene;
- Pulse Compression;
- Rare Gas-Halide Lasers;
- Ultrashort Pulsed Lasers;
- Ultraviolet Lasers;
- Chlorides;
- Dyes;
- Laser Spectroscopy;
- Nonlinear Optics;
- Photoabsorption;
- Lasers and Masers