Effects of excited-state absorption and amplified spontaneous emission in a high-average-power dye laser amplifier pumped by copper vapor lasers

Optical Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1084-1087

  Maruyama, Yoichiro ^b   Kato, Masaaki ^b   Arisawa, Takashi ^a,b  

^a SPIE ^*

^b JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amplified spontaneous emission; Dye laser amplifier; Excited state absorption; Oscillator

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000263873     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.600724     Document Type: Article

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