Dye lasers types

Of the three scientific dye laser types, the mode-locked branch is evolving most rapidly at present, as shown by... 

The characteristic data of different dye laser types are compiled in Table 5.4 for typical operation conditions in order to give a survey on typical orders of magnitude for these figures. The tuning ranges depend not only on the dyes but also on the pump lasers. They are slightly different for pulsed lasers pumped by excimer lasers from that of cw lasers pumped by argon or krypton lasers. Meanwhile, frequency-doubled Nd YAG lasers are used more and more frequently as pump sources for... 

The characteristic data of different dye laser types are compiled in Table 5.4 for typical" operation conditions in order to give a survey on typical orders of magnitude for these figures. The tuning ranges depend not... 

These limitations have recently been eliminated using solid-state sources of femtosecond pulses. Most of the femtosecond dye laser teclmology that was in wide use in the late 1980s [11] has been rendered obsolete by tliree teclmical developments the self-mode-locked Ti-sapphire oscillator [23, 24, 25, 26 and 27], the chirped-pulse, solid-state amplifier (CPA) [28, 29, 30 and 31], and the non-collinearly pumped optical parametric amplifier (OPA) [32, 33 and 34]- Moreover, although a number of investigators still construct home-built systems with narrowly chosen capabilities, it is now possible to obtain versatile, nearly state-of-the-art apparatus of the type described below Ifom commercial sources. Just as home-built NMR spectrometers capable of multidimensional or solid-state spectroscopies were still being home built in the late 1970s and now are almost exclusively based on commercially prepared apparatus, it is reasonable to expect that ultrafast spectroscopy in the next decade will be conducted almost exclusively with apparatus ifom conmiercial sources based around entirely solid-state systems. 

Historically, the first type of laser to be tunable over an appreciable wavelength range was the dye laser, to be described in Section 9.2.10. The alexandrite laser (Section 9.2.1), a tunable solid state laser, was first demonstrated in 1978 and then, in 1982, the titanium-sapphire laser. This is also a solid state laser but tunable over a larger wavelength range, 670-1100 nm, than the alexandrite laser, which has a range of 720-800 nm. 

Organic Dye Lasers. Organic dye lasers represent the only weU-developed laser type in which the active medium is a Hquid (39,40). The laser materials are dyestuffs, of which a common example is rhodamine 6G [989-38-8]. The dye is dissolved in very low concentration in a solvent such as methyl alcohol [67-56-17, CH OH. Only small amounts of dye are needed to produce a considerable effect on the optical properties of the solution. 

The intriguing properties of devices made by the combination of a film-forming dye and an optical microstructure turn up in the discovery of strong coupling between excited states and photon modes in microcavities, creating Rabi-splitted polariton modes [211]. They occur in materials with narrow absorption bands (e.g., porphyrins and cyanine dyes) and may pave the way to new laser types and fundamental insights into the interaction of matter and light. 

Dye lasers have been one of the most widely used types of tunable laser. In pulsed conditions, typical peak powers are in the range of 10 -10 W. In the cw regime, reported powers are in the order of watts, with linewidths of around 1 MHz. Due to their flexibility in design and performance, dye lasers have been commonly used in a great variety of spectroscopic techniques, including high-resolution spectroscopy. 

Tunable coherent light sources can be realized in several ways. One possibility is to make use of lasers that offer a large spectral gain profile. In this case, wavelength-selecting elements inside the laser resonator restrict the laser oscillation to a narrow spectral interval and the laser wavelength may be continuously tuned across the gain profile. Examples of this type of tunable laser are the dye lasers were treated in the previous section. 

S2 - Sq fluorescence in condensed media has so far been found in several types of molecules. However, metalloporphyrins are contrasted with these compounds by another arresting feature such that the S2 fluorescence can be observed even upon photoexcitation to the state. Stelmakh and Tsvirko have first noticed the anomalous S2 - Sq fluorescence in metalloporphyrins (15,16). Figure 1(a) shows the fluorescence spectra of ZnTPP in EPA taken by the 540 nm excitation of a nitrogen pumped dye laser. The fluorescence band at around 430 nm observed by visible excitation is safely assigned to the S2 state fluorescence. The laser power dependence of the fluorescence intensity is quadratic at low power density of excitation (<5 x 10 photons cm"2 pulse ) but shows typical saturation effect with increasing the laser intensity. It should be emphasized here that the S2 fluorescence of ZnTPP can be observed without focusing of the laser beeim. 

In this section the types of dye lasers, the mechanism of lasing as applied to dyes, structural types of laser dyes and a few of the applications of dye lasers will be dis-cussed. ... 

The main advantages of dye lasers are spectrum coverage (from less than 400 to 1000 nm) and tunability. In general, the laser dyes used nowadays have changed little from those used a decade ago [3]. Coumarins such as (73) and xanthenes such as Rhodamine 6G (74), are the main types. However, fluorinated coumarin dyes such as (75) have higher light stability than their nonfluorinated counterparts [39],... 

Prior to about 1955 much of the nuclear information was obtained from application of atomic physics. The nuclear spin, nuclear magnetic and electric moments and changes in mean-squared charge radii are derived from measurement of the atomic hyperfine structure (hfs) and Isotope Shift (IS) and are obtained in a nuclear model independent way. With the development of the tunable dye laser and its use with the online isotope separator this field has been rejuvenated. The scheme of collinear laser/fast-beam spectroscopy [KAU76] promised to be useful for a wide variety of elements, thus UNISOR began in 1980 to develop this type of facility. The present paper describes some of the first results from the UNISOR laser facility. 

For various ions the 2S /2 — 2P1/2 and 2,S - /2 — 2P3/2 transitions match the wavelengths of certain efficient lasers enabling spectroscopy with the fast-beam laser-resonance technique [9], The most precise measurement of this type, achieved after considerable experimental development, was of the 2Si/2 — 2P3/2 transition in P14+ [10], where an uncertainty equivalent to 0.15% of the 2Si/2 — 2Pi/2 interval was obtained. A high-power pulsed dye-laser producing intensities of over 10 MW/cm-2, but with a duty cycle of about 10-5, was required to obtain a good signal-to-background ratio. 

Measurement of ratios. An example of this type of measurement was given by WIEMAN and HANSCH, [6] who successfully measured the ground state Lamb shift of H and D by comparing a laser at Balmer 8 at 4860 A with another dye laser which was doubled to look at the two-photon transition 1S-2S, Lyman a. The measured... 

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