Abstract
Ultraviolet (UV) generation from copper vapor lasers (CVLS) has been achieved by frequency-doubling the 578.2-nm output. In the amplification stage the green/yellow output of a conventional discharge-heated CVL is focused directly into a dye cell for collinear pumping. A long-focal-length lens is used to focus into the crystal for UV generation, and the output is then recollimated with a short-focal-length lens and dispersed with a quartz prism. The laser had an average power of 7.6 W with a pulse repetition frequency of 6 kHz and a fully unstable edge-coupled confocal cavity with a magnification of 16, giving a beam divergence of 0.2 mrad. The experimental results are presented and discussed.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics |
| Place of Publication | Washington, DC |
| Publisher | Optical Society of America (OSA) |
| Pages | 418-419 |
| Number of pages | 2 |
| ISBN (Print) | 1557520860 |
| Publication status | Published - 1989 |
| Event | Summaries of Papers Presented at the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics - Baltimore, MD, USA Duration: 24 Apr 1989 → 28 Apr 1989 |
Other
| Other | Summaries of Papers Presented at the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics |
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| City | Baltimore, MD, USA |
| Period | 24/04/89 → 28/04/89 |