Injection locking and saturation intensity of a cadmium iodide laser

A discharge-pumped cadmium monoiodide (CdI) laser utilizing isotopically pure CdI(2) ((114)CdI(2)) has been injection locked with a flashlamp-pumped dye laser having a linewidth of 0.3 cm(-1). Complete locking of the slave oscillator occurs for wavelengths between 655 and 660 nm and for injection intensities of ~5 W cm(-2). The saturation intensity for the B ? X band of CdI has been directly measured with an excimer-pumped dye laser to be (125 +/- 60) kW cm(-2).