CW dye laser based on Rhodamine 6G. The dye laser is considered to be the first broadly tunable laser.
A tunable laser is a laser whose wavelength of operation can be altered in a controlled manner. While all laser gain media allow small shifts in output wavelength, only a few types of lasers allow continuous tuning over a significant wavelength range.
There are many types and categories of tunable lasers. They exist in the gas, liquid, and solid state. Among the types of tunable lasers are excimer lasers, gas lasers (such as CO2 and He-Ne lasers), dye lasers (liquid and solid state), transition metal solid-state lasers, semiconductor crystal and diode lasers, and free electron lasers.[1]
Tunable lasers find applications in spectroscopy,[2] photochemistry, atomic vapor laser isotope separation,[3][4] and optical communications.
^F. J. Duarte (ed.), Tunable Lasers Handbook (Academic, 1995).
^J. R. Murray, in Laser Spectroscopy and its Applications, L. J. Radziemski, R. W. Solarz, and J. A. Paisner (Eds.) (Marcel Dekker, New York, 1987) Chapter 2.
^M. A. Akerman, Dye-laser isotope separation, in Dye Laser Principles, F. J. Duarte and L. W. Hillman, Eds. (Academic, New York, 1990) Chapter 9.
A tunablelaser is a laser whose wavelength of operation can be altered in a controlled manner. While all laser gain media allow small shifts in output...
more. The wide bandwidth makes them particularly suitable for tunablelasers and pulsed lasers. The dye rhodamine 6G, for example, can be tuned from 635 nm...
(help) F. J. Duarte (2016). "Tunablelaser atomic vapor laser isotope separation". In F. J. Duarte (ed.). TunableLaser Applications (3rd ed.). Boca Raton:...
Tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy (TDLAS, sometimes referred to as TDLS, TLS or TLAS) is a technique for measuring the concentration of certain...
interoperability for the tunablelasers that are sometimes used in optical modules. These have included Integrable TunableLaser Assembly Multi Source Agreement...
blue-green tunable organic dye lasers. Among the various coumarin laser dyes are coumarins 480, 490, 504, 521, 504T, and 521T. Coumarin tetramethyl laser dyes...
interoperability for the tunablelasers that are sometimes used in optical modules. These have included Integrable TunableLaser Assembly Multi Source Agreement...
clouds and the near-surface environment. VTLS is similar to Curiosity's tunablelaser spectrometer (TLS). Proposed to be built by GSFC using flight-proven...
instead of photons. Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy, also called laser-induced plasma spectrometry Laser spectroscopy uses tunablelasers and other types...
use laser dye solutions as their gain media. Organic lasers are inherently tunable and when configured as optimized multiple-prism grating laser oscillators...
), Dye Laser Principles (Academic, New York, 1990). F. J. Duarte, TunableLaser Optics (Elsevier-Academic, New York, 2003) Appendix of Laser Dyes (includes...
locking fiber lasers. Graphene's saturable absorption is not very sensitive to wavelength, making it useful for mode locking tunablelasers. In the non-mode...
studies, in TunableLaser Applications, 1st Edition, Duarte, F. J. Ed. (Marcel Dekker, New York, 1995) Chapter 7. Gonglach, Matt. "How Police Laser Guns Work"...
is actually detected). Dye lasers were the first laser sources used in laser guide star applications. These tunablelasers have continued to play a significant...
Santur Corporation developed, manufactured and commercialized tunablelasers as well as parallel array devices and photonic integrated circuits for the...
Duarte, F. J. (ed.). TunableLaser Applications (2nd ed.). CRC Press. Storrie-Lombardia, M. C.; et al. (2001). "Hollow cathode ion lasers for deep ultraviolet...
these lasers to be highly tunable, or to produce very short-duration pulses (on the order of a few femtoseconds). Although these tunablelasers are mainly...
beam expanders, in laser resonators, these telescopes provide two-dimensional beam expansion in the 20–50 range. In tunablelaser resonators intracavity...
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