Various books and publications describe in detail the AVLIS technique. For a historical perspective on this subject the reader might consult:

• B. W. Shore et al., The Livermore experience: contributions of J. H. Eberly to laser excitation theory, Opt. Express 8, 28-43 (2001).

The selected bibliography, given here, deals primarily with the lasers applicable to this field. This emphasizes the fact that tunable narrow-linewidth lasers, in the visible, are useful in a plethora of applications: from fundamental physics to medicine. As an example, it should be mentioned that, lasers developed for AVLIS, in the visible, are also useful to laser guide star applications in astronomy.

• A. A. Pease and W. M. Pearson, Axial mode structure of a copper vapor pumped dye laser, Appl. Opt. 16, 57-60 (1977).
• F. J. Duarte and J. A. Piper, Comparison of prism preexpanded and grazing incidence grating cavities for copper laser pumped dye lasers, Appl. Opt. 21, 2782-2786 (1982).
• F. J. Duarte and J. A. Piper, Narrow linewidth high prf copper laser-pumped dye-laser oscillators, Appl. Opt. 23, 1391-1394 (1984).
• M. Broyer, J. Chevaleyre, G. Delacretaz, and L. Woste, CVL-pumped dye laser for spectroscopic application, Appl. Phys. B. 35, 31-36 (1984).
  
• J. R. Murray, in Laser Spectroscopy and its Applications, L. J. Radziemski, R. W. Solarz, and J. A. Paisner (Eds.) (Marcel Dekker, New York, 1987) Chapter 2.
  
  
  
• M. A. Akerman, Dye-laser isotope separation, in Dye Laser Principles, F. J. Duarte and L. W. Hillman, Eds. (Academic, New York, 1990) Chapter 9.
  
  
  
• F. J. Duarte, Dispersive dye lasers, in High Power Dye Lasers, F. J. Duarte, Ed. (Springer, Berlin, 1991) Chapter 2.
• C. Tallman and R. Tennant, Large-scale excimer-laser-pumped dye lasers, in High Power Dye Lasers, F. J. Duarte, Ed. (Springer, Berlin, 1991) Chapter 4.
• C. E. Webb, High-power dye lasers pumped by copper vapor lasers, in High Power Dye Lasers, F. J. Duarte, Ed. (Springer, Berlin, 1991) Chapter 5.
  
  
  
• I. L. Bass, R. E. Bonanno, R. P. Hackel, and P. R. Hammond, High-average-power dye laser at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Appl. Opt. 33, 6993-7006 (1992).
• S. Singh, K. Dasgupta, S. Kumar, K. G. Manohar, L. G. Nair, U. K. Chatterjee, High-power high-repetition-rate capper-vapor-pumped dye laser, Opt. Eng. 33, 1894-1904 (1994).
• K. Dasgupta, S. Kundu, and L. G. Nair, Extraction efficiency of saturated-gain high-average-power dye laser amplifiers: effect of nonlinear signal absorption, Appl. Opt. 34, 1982-1988 (1995).
• Y. Maruyama, M. Kato, M. Ohba, and T. Arisawa, A narrow-linewidth dye laser pumped by a high-repetition-rate long-pulse Nd:YAG laser, Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 34, L1045-L1047 (1995).
• A. Sugiyama, T. Nakayama, M. Kato, Y. Maruyama, T. Arisawa, Characteristics of a pressure-tuned single-mode dye laser oscillator pumped by a copper vapor oscillator, Opt. Eng. 35, 1093-1097 (1996).
• Y. Maruyama, M. Kato, and T. Arizawa, Effects of excited-state absorption and amplified spontaneous emission in a high-average-power dye laser amplifier pumped by copper vapor lasers, Opt. Eng. 35, 1084-1087 (1996).
• K. Takehisa, Scaling up of a high average power dye laser amplifier and its new pumping designs, Appl. Opt. 36, 584-592 (1997).
• I. E. Olivares, A. E. Duarte, E. A. Saravia, F. J. Duarte, Lithium isotope separation with tunable diode lasers, Appl. Opt. 41, 2973-2977 (2002).
• F. J. Duarte and D. R. Foster, Lasers, dye, in The Optics Encyclopedia, Volume 2, T. G. Brown et al. Eds. (Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 2004) pp. 1065-1096.
• M. Saleem et al., Laser isotope separation of lithium by two-step photoionization, J. Appl. Phys. 100, 053111 (2006).
• P. A. Bokhan et al., Laser Isotope Separation in Atomic Vapor (Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 2006).
• I. E. Olivares, Selective laser excitation in lithium, Opt. J. 1, 7-12 (2007).

• Books on Tunable Lasers
• Dye Lasers
• Tunable Lasers
• Tunable Lasers: Selected Bibliography and Papers (Sections on Semiconductor and Diode Lasers)
• Tunable Lasers Bibliography
• Tutorial

First published on the 26th of February, 2005.

Updated on the 14th of July, 2007.