Optically pumped vapor phase Bi2 laser

✍ Scribed by W.P. West; H.P. Broida

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1978
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 249 KB
• Volume: 56
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0009-2614
• DOI: 10.1016/0009-2614(78)80240-1

✦ Synopsis

Laser emission, attributed to Bi2 molecuIes, has been observed between 650 and 710 mn, the region of Bi2 A-X emission. Bismuth vapor was optically pumped, using a flashlamp pumped dye laser, in the A-X absorption bands between 540 and 580 nm. A 0.2% efficiency of this laser was found.