Abstract

The tuning and saturation behavior of the anti-Stokes Raman laser is examined experimentally for the first reported time in a Raman medium of inverted, metastable ${\text{Tl}}^{*}\hspace{0.17em}(6p\hspace{0.17em}{{}^{2}P}_{3/2}^{\circ })$. Two significant regions of saturation are identified that correspond to atomic saturation and pump depletion of the input laser field.

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Anti-Stokes Raman laser emission at 149 nm in atomic bromine

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Opt. Lett. 8(10) 520-522 (1983)

Threshold and dispersion effects in the anti-Stokes Raman laser

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Tunable, 178-nm iodine anti-Stokes Raman laser

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