LASER ISOTOPE SEPARATION (LIS)
SELECTED PAPERS AND BOOKS ON LASER DEVELOPMENT FOR HIGH RESOLUTION SPECTROSCOPY AND ATOMIC VAPOR LASER ISOTOPE SEPARATION (AVLIS) APPLICATIONS IN THE VISIBLE AND NEAR INFRARED
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).
Resources on Tunable Lasers
First published on the 26th of February, 2005.
Updated on the 14th of July, 2007.