A transversely pumped prismatic dye cell for high power dye lasers

Abstract

A new type of prismatic dye cell for transversely pumped pulsed dye lasers, which overcomes the shortcomings of the commonly used planar dye cell and is simple to construct, is described. The design of the cell ensures relatively uniform excitation of the dye which results in an output beam of circular cross-section and very good spatial quality.