Piezoelectrically tuned short cavity dye laser

Details Piezoelectrically tuned short cavity dye laser Piezoelectrically tuned short cavity dye laser

1982-11-08

1985-12-03

Sikes, William L.

Coherent light generators

Particular beam control device

Tuning

372 54, 372 19, 372 92, H01S 310

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045569797

ABSTRACT:
A picosecond short cavity dye laser utilizes a piezoelectric translator to vary the length of the optical cavity in the laser to allow continuous tuning of the output wavelength. The laser includes a pair of closely spaced generally flat mirrors forming an optical cavity. A laser dye solution is inserted into the cavity. The short cavity laser is pumped by pulses from another laser to produce picosecond output pulses. The piezoelectric translator, which is attached to one of the mirrors, moves the mirror to tune the laser as an applied DC voltage is varied. The piezoelectric tuning of the dye laser allows the laser to operate in a tunable single axial mode.

REFERENCES:
patent: 4081765 (1978-03-01), Berg et al.
patent: 4150342 (1979-04-01), Johnston, Jr. et al.
patent: 4187475 (1980-02-01), Wieder
Cox et al; "Single Mode, Piezoelectrically Tuned, Picosecond Short-Cavity Dye Laser"; Appl. Phys. Lett., 40 (8), p. 664, Apr. 15, 1982.
Article entitled "Short-Cavity Picosecond Dye Laser Design" by A. J. Cox and Gary W. Scott, Applied Optics, vol. 18, p. 532, 2/15/79.
Reprint from the Proceedings of the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers entitled "A Tunable Dye Laser in the 400-500 nm Range for Picosecond Spectroscopy" by Gary W. Scott and A. J. Cox, vol. 113 (Aug., 1977).
Article entitled "Tunable Blue Picosecond Pulses from a Dye Laser" by A. J. Cox, Gary W. Scott, and Larry D. Talley, Applied Physics Letters, vol. 31, No. 6, Sep. 15, 1977.

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