Proposal for vacuum-ultraviolet anti-Stokes Raman lasers based on the group VI elements
- 1 February 1984
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Optics Letters
- Vol. 9 (2) , 38-40
- https://doi.org/10.1364/ol.9.000038
Abstract
Metastable inversions in the 1S0 state of the group VI elements (oxygen, sulfur, and selenium) are proposed as host media for a new class of anti-Stokes Raman laser. Selective photodissociation of N2O, OCS, or OCSe with appropriate VUV wavelengths can create 1S0 inversion densities in excess of 1016 atoms/cm3. Using this population inversion to upconvert tunable input lasers should result in the creation of efficient, high-power lasers over the 100–206-nm spectral region.Keywords
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