High-repetition-rate, narrow-band dye lasers with water as a solvent for dyes
Applied Optics, Vol. 41, Issue 9, pp. 1704-1713 (2002)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/AO.41.001704
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Abstract
The performance of a copper vapor laser-pumped narrow-band dye laser in oscillator-amplifier configuration with water-based binary mixture solvents is described. Although oscillator efficiency in water-surfactant (sodium lauryl sulfate) solvent was comparable with that that employed pure ethanolic solvent, amplifier efficiency was found to be lower. Experiments that were carried out with vertically polarized pump beams and either horizontally or vertically polarized signal beams show that, in case of both the pump and signal having orthogonal polarization (horizontal) and same polarization (vertical), the extraction efficiency for both ethanolic and water-micelle media increased substantially from 15.7% to 18.5% and from 10% to 12.5%, respectively. However, the relative difference remained nearly the same, indicating that a slower orientational diffusion of excited dye molecules in a micellar medium is not responsible for a decrease in amplifier efficiency. Amplifier efficiency comparable with that containing ethanolic dye solutions could be obtained with a binary solvent that comprises a mixture of water and about 30% n-propanol. The performances of two efficient dyes, Rhodamine-6G and Kiton Red S, using water-based solvents were studied.
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OCIS Codes
(140.2050) Lasers and laser optics : Dye lasers
(140.3600) Lasers and laser optics : Lasers, tunable
(300.1030) Spectroscopy : Absorption
(300.2140) Spectroscopy : Emission
Citation
Alok K. Ray, Sucharita Sinha, Soumitra Kundu, Sasi Kumar, Sivagiriyal Karunakaran Sreenivasan Nair, Tamal Pal, and Kamalesh Dasgupta, "High-repetition-rate, narrow-band dye lasers with water as a solvent for dyes," Appl. Opt. 41, 1704-1713 (2002)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/ao/abstract.cfm?URI=ao-41-9-1704
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