ISSN:
1089-7623
Source:
AIP Digital Archive
Topics:
Physics
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Electrical Engineering, Measurement and Control Technology
Notes:
We describe a pulsed single-mode dye laser whose output characteristics satisfy the stringent requirements of coherent control experiments. This simple, low cost laser exhibits 1.6× transform-limited frequency performance with a single-shot linewidth of 58 MHz, and a time averaged linewidth of 240 MHz. The spatial mode is nearly Gaussian and has a beam quality parameterM2=1.2. We modified the pulse shape using saturable absorption in the dye amplifier. The resultant pulses are temporally smooth and have a duration of approximately 20 ns. © 1997 American Institute of Physics.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1148056