Development of quasi-end-fired waveguide plastic dye laser

Author

Oki, Yuji ; Tanaka, Masamitsu ; Ogawa, Yukinori ; Watanabe, Hirofumi ; Maeda, Mitsuo

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron., Kyushu Univ., Fukuoka, Japan

Volume

42

Issue

4

fYear

2006

fDate

4/1/2006 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

389

Lastpage

396

Abstract

A quasi-end-fire (QEF) pumping scheme was proposed and studied as a novel laser-pumping-scheme for a laser-dye-doped plastic waveguide laser with distributed feedback. This pumping scheme resembled longitudinal pumping, but also has the advantage of controllable absorption length of the injected pump beam. A first demonstration of the QEF was performed and the pumping beam controlling was also investigated.

Keywords

distributed feedback lasers; dye lasers; optical pumping; solid lasers; waveguide lasers; controllable absorption length; distributed feedback laser; injected pump beam; laser-dye-doped laser; laser-pumping-scheme; longitudinal pumping; plastic dye laser; pumping beam controlling; quasiend-fired pumping scheme; solid-state DFB laser; waveguide laser; Distributed feedback devices; Laser excitation; Laser feedback; Laser mode locking; Optical pumping; Optical waveguides; Plastics; Pump lasers; Solid lasers; Waveguide lasers; Distributed feedback lasers; dye lasers; laser arrays; optical polymers; optical pumping; optical strip waveguide components; pulsed lasers; solid lasers;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9197

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JQE.2006.871557

Filename

1608208