Two-wavelength operation of a femtosecond ring dye laser

We report on two-wavelength operation of a CPM ring dye laser employing Rhodamine 6G as gain medium and a new styryl dye as saturable absorber. Two trains of femtosecond pulses at different wavelengths are simultaneously generated under proper alignment of the laser. The secondary pulse train is attributed to the laser action of the absorber dye. Auto- and cross-correlation measurements are performed to determine the temporal characteristics of the laser in the double mode-locking regime.     

环行染料激光器用于内腔吸收光谱的研究

本文报告了利用新型连续波环行染料激光器,即使行波工作于超过阈值两倍以上,仍在大气中获得了近10~5的内腔吸收灵敏放大;并首次利用单频扫描方法,在不降低灵敏放大的同时,得到了10~(-2)的光谱分辨率。实验结果与经改进后的Brunner-Paul理论分析一致。     

Sagnac effect in the colliding-pulse-mode-locked dye ring laser

A colliding-pulse-mode-locked dye ring laser was mounted on a rotary stage and the beat frequency of the two output pulse trains was measured as a function of the rotation rate. The measurements are in good agreement with the Sagnac theory.     

自动扫描环形染料激光器的调谐机制

本文描述了计算机控制环形染料激光器实现无间断自动扫描10THz的光学调谐元件设计、运转机制及实验结果。     

Online ef fective backscattering estimation for ring laser gyro

Lock-in phenomenon in ring laser gyroscopes is directly related to effective backscattering,which includes both backscattering and nonuniform loss.Effective backscattering often differs in different states and can only be reflected in a working state via online estimation in the working state.Moreover,effective backscattering can result in the intensity modulation of beams in the opposite directions.The effective backscattering parameters can be obtained by measuring the weak modulations in the intensity signals under different rotation rates and by using the curve-fitting method.This letter demonstrates the online estimation of backscattering.     

A narrowband unidirectional pulsed ring dye laser

A simple unidirectional optically stable ring laser cavity has been developed for short pulse excitation. Using only one grazing incidence grating as a selective element a N₂-laser pumped dye laser has been constructed having a single mode spectrum of 420 MHz, clockwise to counterclockwise wave ratio 166:1 and a conversion efficiency of 4.6%.     

A high-power single-mode cw dye ring laser

Due to spatial hole burning, standing-wave dye lasers require a large amount of selectivity inside the cavity for single-mode operation. The output power of these lasers is limited by losses caused by the frequency selecting elements. In a travelling-wave laser, on the other hand, spatial hole burning does not exist, thereby eliminating the need for high selectivity. A travelling-wave cw dye laser was realized by unidirectional operation of a ring laser, yielding single mode output powers of 1.2 W at 595 nm and of 55 mW in the UV-region with intracavity frequency doubling.     

A mirror-free cavity configuration for a CW ring dye laser

A new cavity configuration without mirrors is described for a CW ring dye laser. The cavity design is based on a new type of focusing prism which uses the Brewster angle of incidence and total internal reflection. Special roof prisms allow wavelength tuning. All of these elements are made from uncoated quartz thus allowing dye laser operation over a large range of wavelengths. CW operation as well as synchronously pumped mode locked operation with intracavity doubling is reported using the Rhodamine 6G dye.     

连续波环形染料激光器的单向运转特性

本文讨论了连续波环形染料激光器的单向运转特性。采用改进的Ganiel速率方程模型,分析了在单向运转条件下泵浦光通量、染料分子密度等参量对激光光通量、激发单重态粒子集居数密度以及增益的影响;揭示了在连续波环形染料激光器中单向运转条件下存在粒子集居数密度的非对称性、激光光通量与激活介质内空间位置的相关性和增益峰值波长的扫描现象。本文给出了数值计算结果。     

Feedback controlled self-excitation of optical pulses in a CW dye ring laser

Feedback controlled self-excitation of optical pulses of nanosecond duration has been observed to occur rather reliably in a CW dye ring laser, oscillating in a traveling mode. These observations are described analytically by means of a direct time domain approach. It is shown that a steady-state Gaussian pulse whose time duration determined from the self consistency condition in terms of system characteristics describes accurately the observed pulse behaviors. Supported in part by a NSF Grant.     

Effect of laser dye deterioration on performance

Loss of gain in a dye medium as a result of decomposition by pump photons is considered in terms of disappearance of dye molecules and the appearance of a new, single chemical product having absorption in the fluorescence band. The cases of small signal gain and saturated gain are applied to a single pass through a transversely excited amplifier. Loss of output, defined as “quantum yield of laser deterioration”,Q _L , is related to the true quantum yield of molecular destruction of the dye,Q _M , and other known parameters. For the experimentally common, saturated gain condition, the smallestQ _L can be isQ _M , which requires a photochemically bleachable dye with high gain, preferably at high concentration, in a long cavity, operating at high injection and pumping fluxes. Reversing these conditions, the highest valueQ _L can be, compared withQ _M , is unrestricted. This work was performed under the auspices of the U.S. Energy Research and Development Administration. Contract No. W 7405 Eng 48.     

Effect of laser dye deterioration on performance

A previous analysis that described loss of gain in a dye solution as a result of photochemical decomposition by pump photons is refined and is extended to the situation where impurities absorb at the pump wavelength. A limitation in the first paper is that it described only a single absorption depth in the medium at a constant pump fluxI _p. The present examination includes the fall-off ofI _p and integrates the total signal output with depth for a single-pass amplifier operated in the fully saturated gain condition. The equations are simpler, but as before loss of output, expressed in terms of a quantum yield of laser decayQ _L, is minimized for a photochemically bleachable dye, and for one with high gain. Pumping in the vicinity of the absorption maximum is also advantageous.     

Optical bistability and first order phase transition in a ring dye laser

The probability distribution of photoelectric counting has been measured for each of the two counter-propagating travelling-wave modes of a ring dye laser. Each distribution is found to be double-peaked. The system exhibits quasi-bistability, with spontaneous switching between states, and the relative intensity fluctuation of the weaker mode is greater than unity. These features are characteristic of a first order phase transition.     

Efficient single mode operation of a CW ring dye laser with a Mach-Zehnder interferometer

Stable single mode operation of a ring dye laser is obtained with the combination of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI), three plate birefringent filter, a single thin etalon and a unidirectional diode. The MZI eliminates the fractional insertion loss due to beam walk-off and distortion which an intracavity etalon must introduce in order to select single frequency operation. We experimentally demonstrate the low insertion loss, single mode stability and frequency tuning of a ring dye laser using a specially designed, compact MZI. Finally, we propose MZIs with no coatings, which should permit extremely low loss broadband operation.     

Effect of concentration on laser threshold of organic dye laser

The effect of concentration on laser threshold is examined theoretically and experimentally for Rhodamin B and Rhodamin 6G. Laser action is obtained in the region from 1 · 10^?6 mol to 2.5 · 10^?1 mol. Lasing in organic dye solutions which are excited by a pulslaser is possible in a broad concentration range. For high concentrations laser action is limited by fluorescence quenching and increasing losses (diffraction, thermal effects, and bleaching). For low concentrations the limit is given by the losses of the used experimental set-up. In the present work the influence of the concentration on the exciting intensity at laserthreshold is examined for Rhodamin B and Rhodamin 6G solutions.     

Intracavity spectrometer with a ring travelling-wave dye laser: Reduction of detection limit

In a ring travelling-wave dye laser a parasitic structure in the intracavity absorption spectrum is fully eliminated and a detection limit as low as 10^-10 cm^-1 is obtained. The sensitivity dependence of the intracavity laser spectrometer with travelling-wave cavity on the pumping level is also investigated.     

Optical frequency doubling of a single-mode dye laser in an external ring resonator

Optical frequency doubling of a single-mode cw Rhodamin 6G ring dye laser is performed with a thin angle-tuned LiIO₃ Brewster cut crystal in a stabilized passive ring resonator. A conversion efficiency of =5 mW uv/320 mW fundamental input power was achieved at =603 nm.