Narrowband Broadly Tunable Solid State Laser Source

窄带宽带可调谐固态激光源

• 批准号: 8961122
• 负责人: Donald Heller
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: Light Age Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1990
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1990-01-01 至 1990-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8961122&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Narrowband; Broadly; Tunable; Solid; State

They propose to design, build, develop, and characterize a new narrowband, broadly tunable, pulsed, solid state laser source based on the newly emerging alexandrite laser technology. Present day pulsed narrowband tunable laser sources of the type required for high resolution spectroscopy, photochemical studies, and analytical chemistry are based on dye laser technology and are relatively expensive and cumbersome to use. The proposed source, when completed, will provide new capabilities in spectral purity, pulse duration versatility, pulse energy and reliability. Perhaps most importantly, when augmented by nonlinear conversion methods based on stimulated raman scattering (SRS) and second and third harmonic generation, a general light source useful for chemical applications will become available that provides enormous cost benefits, reliability and operating simplicity over previous technology. This source, we believe, will greatly improve the amount of time researchers can spend on performing experiments rather than maintaining lasers and will permit multi laser experiments to be performed vastly more easily and at many more laboratories than is possible today.

他们提议基于新兴的翠绿宝石激光技术设计、建造、开发和表征一种新型窄带、宽可调、脉冲、固态激光源。 目前高分辨率光谱学、光化学研究和分析化学所需类型的脉冲窄带可调谐激光源基于染料激光技术，并且相对昂贵且使用起来麻烦。 拟议的光源完成后，将提供光谱纯度、脉冲持续时间多功能性、脉冲能量和可靠性方面的新功能。 也许最重要的是，当通过基于受激拉曼散射（SRS）和二次和三次谐波生成的非线性转换方法增强时，可用于化学应用的通用光源将变得可用，与以前的技术相比，它提供了巨大的成本效益、可靠性和操作简单性。 我们相信，这个来源将大大减少研究人员花在进行实验而不是维护激光器上的时间，并使多激光实验能够比现在更容易地在更多的实验室进行。