A High Radiance Flashlamp Pumped Dye Laser.
Abstract
A negative-branch, confocal unstable resonator has been found to significantly improve the beam quality of a coaxial flashlamp pumped rhodamine 6G dye laser. In a performance comparison with a conventional parallel-plane mirror resonator, over an order of magnitude increase in laser beam radiance has been measured. The negative-branch unstable resonator demonstrated relatively uncritical alignment sensitivity, a major practical advantage for field application. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 1974
- Accession Number
- AD0786507
Entities
People
- Theodore F. Ewanizky
Organizations
- United States Army Communications-Electronics Command