Abstract

Using a simplified resonant cavity consisted of an optical parallel glass plate and a diffraction grating at near grazing incidence and the appropriate laser parameters, coumarin 120 laser pulses close to the Fourier transform limit have been obtained. These laser pulses have a spectral linewidth of 600 ± 40 MHz and a pulse width of 1.5 ± 0.2 ns. The laser wavelength tuning range is from 4280 to 4600 Å.

© 1987 Optical Society of America

Efficiency and linewidth improvements in a grazing incidence dye laser using an intracavity lens and spherical end mirror

R. Seth Smith and Louis F. DiMauro
Appl. Opt. 26(5) 855-859 (1987)

Quasiunimodal tunable pulsed dye laser at 440 nm: theoretical development for using a quad prism beam expander and one or two gratings in a pulsed dye laser oscillator cavity

Patrick Dupre
Appl. Opt. 26(5) 860-871 (1987)

Lasing threshold reduction in grating-tuned cavities

Guangzhi Z. Zhang and Dennis W. Tokaryk
Appl. Opt. 36(24) 5855-5858 (1997)

Prism preexpanded grazing-incidence grating cavity for pulsed dye lasers

F. J. Duarte and J. A. Piper
Appl. Opt. 20(12) 2113-2116 (1981)

Diffraction-limited single-longitudinal-mode multiple-prism flashlamp-pumped dye laser oscillator: linewidth analysis and injection of amplifier system

Frank J. Duarte and R. W. Conrad
Appl. Opt. 26(13) 2567-2571 (1987)