Molecular gases as a source of coherent, tunable XUV radiation
Abstract
Coherent and broadly tunable over 3500 cm -1 extreme ultraviolet (XUV) radiation from 935 to 967 Å has been generated by frequency tripling the second harmonic output of a rhodamine 590 pulsed dye laser in molecular nitrogen and carbon monoxide. The scheme exploits high lying Rydberg and valence states of these gases and leads to the production of about 5 × 10 9 XUV photons per pulse corresponding to a conversion efficiency of 5 × 10 -6.
- Publication:
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Optics Communications
- Pub Date:
- October 1984
- DOI:
- 10.1016/0030-4018(84)90024-5
- Bibcode:
- 1984OptCo..51..347H
- Keywords:
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- Dye Lasers;
- Extreme Ultraviolet Radiation;
- Harmonic Generations;
- Molecular Gases;
- Tunable Lasers;
- Ultraviolet Lasers;
- Carbon Monoxide;
- Coherent Radiation;
- Energy Conversion Efficiency;
- Nitrogen;
- Pressure Effects;
- Pulsed Lasers;
- Radiation Sources;
- Rhodamine;
- Lasers and Masers