Design, modeling, and performance evaluation of a novel dye cell for a high repetition rate dye laser.

In this paper, a new dye cell for transverse pumping was designed, modeled, and its performance in a narrow spectral width dispersive resonator, pumped by a high repetition rate copper vapor laser, was investigated. The scheme essentially involves the profiling of the cubical glass and stainless steel cylindrical surface such that convex-plano contour be present near the optical pumping region. The design is an amalgamation of straight and curved periphery to enhance the dye solution flow stabilities near the dye laser axis.

Determination of nonlinear absorption and refraction in direct and indirect band gap crystals by Z-scan method.

A systematic investigation on nonlinear optical properties such as three photon absorption (3PA) wavelength dependent of Kerr type nonlinear refraction in direct and indirect band gap crystals has been reported in the present work. The Z-scan measurements are recorded for both ZnO and CdI(2) with femtosecond laser pulses while the wavelength dependent of the Kerr nonlinearity are in agreement with a two band model. The wavelength dependence of the 3PA is determined by [(3E(photon)/E(g))-1](5/2)[(3E(photon)/E(g))](-9) in the case of direct band gap crystal and [(3E(photon)±ℏΩ/E(g))-1](5/2)[(3E(photon)±ℏΩ/E(g))](-9) in the case of indirect band gap crystal.

Effect of optical turbulence in the dye medium on the bandwidth of a narrowband, high-repetition-rate dye laser.

An analysis of turbulence in the dye medium of a high-repetition-rate narrowband dye laser is presented, and it is shown that the output bandwidth is proportional to the turbulence length scale, which depends on the Reynolds number. The length scale and the bandwidth both first decrease and then increase as the Reynolds number is increased from -200 to -20,000. The observed bandwidth, as we report and as in the published literature, confirms the validity of the analysis.