High-repetition-rate, narrow-band dye lasers with water as a solvent for dyes

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1704-1713

  Ray, Alok K ^a   Sinha, Sucharita ^a   Kundu, Soumitra ^a   Kumar, Sasi ^a   Sreenivasan Nair, Sivagiriyal Karunakaran ^a   Pal, Tamal ^a   Dasgupta, Kamalesh ^a  

^a BHABHA ATOMIC RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND STRUCTURE; BINARY MIXTURES; DYES; LASER BEAMS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; PUMPING (LASER); SOLVENTS; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; WATER;

BINARY SOLVENTS; NARROW-BAND DYE LASERS;

DYE LASERS;

EID: 0037139039     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.001704     Document Type: Article

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