Characteristics of p-terphenyl dye lasers pumped by high energy XeCl pulses

DOI	Resolve DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/0030-4018(81)90215-7
Author	Search for: Cassard, P.¹; Search for: Taylor, R. S.¹; Search for: Corkum, P. B.¹; Search for: Alcock, A. J.¹
Name affiliation	National Research Council of Canada
Format	Text, Article
Journal title	Optics Communications
ISSN	0030-4018
Volume	38
Issue	2
Pages	131–135
Subject	Lasers, dye
Abstract	A p-terphenyl dye laser has been pumped with a high energy XeCl (308 nm) pulse of up to 50 ns (fwhm) duration. An untuned dye laser output of ∼0.14 J was obtained with an energy conversion efficiency of ∼27% and a temporal profile corresponding to that of the pump pulse. For pump levels ≥10 MW/cm2 pump induced absorption processes resulted in a decrease in the energy conversion efficiency with increasing pump flux. A similar effect was observed in other dyes. However, even at the highest pumping levels and longest pulse durations no triplet-triplet absorption was observed for PTP lasers.
Publication date	1981
Language	English
Peer reviewed	Yes
NPARC number	21276228
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