Energy transfer distributed feedback dye laser using Rhodamine B–Acid blue 7 dye mixture

Abstract

The characteristics of energy transfer distributed feedback dye laser (ETDFDL) are studied both theoretically and experimentally in a mixture of Rhodamine B and Acid blue 7 dyes pumped by 532 nm Nd:YAG laser. The behaviour of donor and acceptor DFDL, the dependence of their pulse width and output power on pump power and donor–acceptor concentrations are studied. Experimentally, the tunability is achieved over the spectral range 565–680 nm using a prism dye cell arrangement. The output energy of DFDL is measured at the emission peaks of donor and acceptor for different pump powers and donor–acceptor concentrations. The output pulse of DFDL is found to be as narrow as 40-ps duration, which is nearly 100-fold shorter than the pump pulse. The pulse linewidth is of the order of 0.1 Å.