High-power dye lasers provide a versatile tool in many scientific, industrial and medical applications. This book offers an up-to-date and practical guide to the physics and technology of these lasers for all those designing, building and using such systems. Individual topics include dispersive resonators, signal amplification, and dye laser pumping by excimer lasers, copper-vapor lasers and flashlamps.

Inhalt

1. Introduction.- 2. Dispersive Dye Lasers.- 3. Pulsed Dye Laser Gain Analysis and Amplifier Design.- 4. Large-Scale, Excimer-Laser-Pumped Dye Lasers.- 5. High-Power Dye Lasers Pumped by Copper Vapor Lasers.- 6. Flashlamp-Excited Dye Lasers.