Operation of a small single-mode stable cw hydrogen fluoride laser
- 1 April 1974
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 45 (4) , 1818-1821
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1663496
Abstract
A small hydrogen fluoride mixing laser has been developed which produces cw radiation with excellent short-term amplitude stability (variation less than ±1.5%) and requires only 14 liter/sec pumping capacity. Using a grating and a semitransparent mirror mounted on a piezoelectric crystal for laser cavity optics, the laser has been made to operate on a single molecular transition and also on a single cavity mode. By varying the cavity length it was possible to tune the laser over about 300 MHz. The gain of the laser was established at about 30% by measurement of mode pulling and also by direct gain measurement.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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