Characteristics of a pressure-tuned single-mode dye laser oscillator pumped by a copper vapor laser

Optical Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1093-1097

  Sugiyama, Akira ^b,c,d   Nakayama, Tsuyoshi ^b,e,f   Kato, Masaaki ^b   Maruyama, Yoichiro ^b   Arisawa, Takashi ^a,b  

^a SPIE ^*

^b JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d IHI CORPORATION   (Japan)

^e KANAGAWA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^f Japan Telescomm Company

Author keywords

Copper vapor laser; Single mode dye laser

Indexed keywords

EID: 0005660706     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.600726     Document Type: Article

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