Continuous-wave dye laser pumped by a high-pressure argon arc
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Published on: July 12, 2017
Optics Letters
|September 12, 2009
Abstract:
Continuous-wave operation of a Rhodamine 6G dye laser, incoherently pumped by a high-pressure argon arc, has been achieved. A special electrode design reduces melting of the electrode tips, and thus the arc provides the necessary brightness for periods of the order of hours.

