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Fast high-power optical switch
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In this article, a dye laser amplifier can be used as an ultrafast high-power optical switch, which is based on the fact that absorption and transmission of the pump beam in the laser amplifier depends strongly on the intensity of the amplified signal beam.About:
This article is published in Optics Communications.The article was published on 1993-05-01. It has received 7 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Optical switch & Signal beam.read more
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Temporal dynamics of a ring dye laser with a stimulated Brillouin scattering mirror.
TL;DR: The conditions to initiate and maintain laser oscillation in the ring resonator as long as the duration of the pumping system pulse persisted are found.
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Temporal dynamics of an external-injection dye laser with a stimulated Brillouin scattering reflector
TL;DR: In this paper, the temporal dynamics of an external-injection stimulated Brillouin scattering laser resonator has been numerically modelled and the main parameters affecting its performance were numerically analyzed in order to understand their influence on the temporal evolution of the laser.
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Generation of cnoidal waves by a laser system with a controllable saturable absorber
TL;DR: Using the three-level laser model based on the Statz--De Mars equations, it is shown that for any value of the saturable absorber parameter there exists a certain modulation frequency for which the pulse shape is very close to a soliton shape with less than 5% error at the pulse base.
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Controlling a laser output through an active saturable absorber
TL;DR: In this paper, it is shown how a saturable absorber can be made into an active control device when an external Electro Optic Modulator modulated low-intensity laser pumps directly into the saturable absorbber inside a dye laser cavity.
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Optical switching and high-resolution image transfer in a saturable dye spatial light modulator
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors experimentally demonstrate and theoretically analyze practical aspects of using a laser-pumped dye medium as an ultrafast (~10ps) optically addressed spatial light modulator for application with high-power radiation.
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Effect of excited-state absorption at signal wavelength in pulsed-dye-laser amplifiers
K. Dasgupta,L.G. Nair +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of excited-state absorption (ESA) at the laser wavelength in transversely pumped pulsed-dye-laser amplifiers is theoretically examined, and it is shown that ESA along with ground state absorption introduces a nonlinear loss term in the amplifier equation.
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Saturable absorber properties of a laser dye; stimulated propagation of the pump flux.
TL;DR: Under certain conditions, higher transmissions, flux densities, and excited state population densities are possible than for even a pure saturable absorber.
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C W Pumped Dye Lasers
TL;DR: In this paper, a review of fundamental information about CW-pumped dye lasers that is most useful to users of these lasers is given, and the important attribute of continuous tunability is discussed and limits suggested for the following: Wavelength ranges, linewidth, mode purity, polarization and power output.
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Incoherent two-beam image transfer in a dye amplifier
TL;DR: In this paper, the pump transmission and signal gain in a laser pumped dye amplifier have been modelled at saturating pump and signal intensities and a comparison has been made to experimental measurements.
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Asymmetry of the amplification of light in optically dense active media
TL;DR: In this article, an asymmetry effect in the amplification and efficiency of an optically dense amplifier is predicted theoretically and confirmed experimentally for opposite and concurrent collinear signal and pump paths.