Vacuum-ultraviolet anti-Stokes Raman laser with atomic selenium
Abstract
The achievement of anti-Stokes Raman-laser oscillation in atomic Se at 158.7 and 167.5 nm using pump-laser radiation at 199.5 and 254.8 nm is reported. The necessary population inversion between the 1S0 and lower 1D2 or 3P states is achieved by photodissociation of COS3 molecules with ArF-laser radiation. Low-threshold pump energies of 0.5 and 20 microjoules, respectively, indicate the possibility of generating high-power tunable VUV radiation.
- Publication:
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Optics Letters
- Pub Date:
- December 1985
- DOI:
- 10.1364/OL.10.000606
- Bibcode:
- 1985OptL...10..606L
- Keywords:
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- Laser Pumping;
- Raman Lasers;
- Selenium;
- Tunable Lasers;
- Ultraviolet Lasers;
- Far Ultraviolet Radiation;
- Fluorescence;
- High Power Lasers;
- Laser Outputs;
- Photodissociation;
- Population Inversion;
- Lasers and Masers