Role of the stimulated-emission rate in the photostability of solid-state dye lasers

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 36, 2005, Pages 7814-7822

  Ray, Alok Kumar ^a   Kumar, Sasi ^a,b   Mayekar, Narayan Vitthal ^a,c   Sinha, Sucharita ^a,b   Kundu, Soumitra ^a,b   Chattopadhyay, Subrata ^a,d   Dasgupta, Kamalesh ^a,b  

^a BHABHA ATOMIC RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

^b Laser and Plasma Physics Division

^c Heavy Water Division

^d Bio organic Division

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYE LASERS; DYES; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); PUMPING (LASER); STIMULATED EMISSION;

AMPLIFIER EFFICIENCY; PHOTOSTABILITY; STIMULATED-EMISSION RATE;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 32344441196     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.007814     Document Type: Article

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