Tunable Laser Development

EXPERIMENTAL AND THEORETICAL PAPERS ON TUNABLE LASER DEVELOPMENT

EXPERIMENTAL

F. J. Duarte and J. A. Piper, A double-prism beam expander for pulsed dye lasers, Opt. Commun. 35, 100-104 (1980).
F. J. Duarte and J. A. Piper, A prism preexpanded grazing incidence pulsed dye laser, Appl. Opt. 20, 2113-2116 (1981).
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).
F. J. Duarte, Multiple-prism Littrow and grazing incidence pulsed CO₂ lasers, Appl. Opt. 24, 1244-1245 (1985).
F. J. Duarte, J. J. Ehrlich, S. P. Patterson, S. D. Russell, and J. E. Adams, Linewidth instabilities in narrow-linewidth flashlamp-pumped dye laser oscillators, Appl. Opt. 27, 843-846 (1988).
F. J. Duarte, Ray transfer matrix analysis of multiple-prism dye laser oscillators, Opt. Quantum. Electron. 21, 47-54 (1989).
F. J. Duarte, J. J. Ehrlich, W. E. Davenport, and T. S. Taylor, Flashlamp-pumped narrow-linewidth dispersive dye laser oscillators: very low amplified spontaneous emission levels and reduction of linewidth instabilities, Appl. Opt. 29, 3176-3179 (1990).
F. J. Duarte, W. E. Davenport, J. J. Ehrlich, and T. S. Taylor, Ruggedized narrow-linewidth dispersive dye laser oscillator, Opt. Commun. 84, 310-316 (1991).
F. J. Duarte, Solid-state multiple-prism grating dye laser oscillators, Appl. Opt. 33, 3857-3860 (1994).
F. J. Duarte, Solid-state dispersive dye laser oscillator: very compact cavity, Opt. Commun. 117, 480-484 (1995).
F. J. Duarte, Multiple-prism near-grazing-incidence grating solid-state dye laser oscillator, Opt. Laser Technol. 29, 513-516 (1997).
F. J. Duarte, T. S. Taylor, A. Costela, I. Garcia-Moreno, and R. Sastre, Long-pulse narrow-linewidth dispersive solid-state dye laser oscillator, Appl. Opt. 37, 3987-3989 (1998).
F. J. Duarte, Multiple-prism grating solid-state dye laser oscillator: optimized architecture, Appl. Opt. 38, 6347-6349 (1999).
F. J. Duarte and R. O. James, Tunable solid-state lasers incorporating dye-doped polymer-nanoparticle gain media, Opt. Lett. 28, 2088-2090 (2003).
F. J. Duarte, Tunable Laser Optics (Elsevier Academic, New York, 2003) Chapter 7.

F. J. Duarte and R. O. James, Spatial structure of dye-doped polymer-nanoparticle laser media, Appl. Opt. 43, 4088-4090 (2004).
F. J. Duarte and R. O. James, Tunable lasers based on dye-doped polymer gain media incorporating homogeneous distributions of functional nanoparticles, in Tunable Laser Applications, 2nd Ed. (CRC, New York, 2009) Chapter 4.

THEORETICAL

F. J. Duarte and J. A. Piper, Dispersion theory of multiple-prism beam expander for pulsed dye lasers, Opt. Commun. 43, 303-307 (1982).
F. J. Duarte and J. A. Piper, Generalized prism dispersion theory, Am. J. Phys. 51, 1132-1134 (1983).
F. J. Duarte and J. A. Piper, Multi-pass dispersion theory of prismatic pulsed dye lasers, Optica Acta 31, 331-335 (1984).
F. J. Duarte, Note on achromatic multiple-prism beam expanders, Opt. Commun. 53, 259-262 (1985).
F. J. Duarte, Generalized multiple-prism dispersion theory for pulse compression in ultrafast dye lasers, Opt. Quantum Electron. 19, 223-229 (1987).
F. J. Duarte, Ray transfer matrix analysis of multiple-prism dye laser oscillators, Opt. Quantum Electron. 21, 47-54 (1989).
F. J. Duarte, Transmission efficiency in achromatic nonorthogonal multiple-prism laser beam expanders, Opt. Commun. 71, 1-5 (1989).
F. J. Duarte, Prismatic pulse compression: beam deviations and geometrical perturbations, Opt. Quantum Electron. 22, 467-471 (1990).
F. J. Duarte, Multiple-prism dispersion and 4x4 ray transfer matrices, Opt. Quantum Electron. 24, 49-53 (1992).
F. J. Duarte, Cavity dispersion equation: a note on its origin, Appl. Opt. 31, 6979-6982 (1992).
F. J. Duarte, On a generalized interference equation and interferometric measurements, Opt. Commun. 103, 8-14 (1993).
F. J. Duarte, Interference, diffraction, and refraction, via Dirac's notation , Am. J. Phys. 65, 637-640 (1997).
F. J. Duarte, Comment on "Analytical expressions of group-delay dispersion and cubic phase for four-prism sequence used at other than Brewster's angle," Optics & Laser Technology 32, 211 (2000).
F. J. Duarte, Multiple-prism arrays in laser optics, Am. J. Phys. 68, 162-166 (2000).
F. J. Duarte, Multiple-return-pass beam divergence and the linewidth equation, Appl. Opt. 40, 3038 - 3041 (2001).
F. J. Duarte, Dirac optics, in Tunable Laser Optics (Elsevier Academic, New York, 2003) Chapter 2.
F. J. Duarte, The uncertainty principle in optics, in Tunable Laser Optics (Elsevier Academic, New York, 2003) Chapter 3.
F. J. Duarte, The physics of multiple-prism optics, in Tunable Laser Optics (Elsevier Academic, New York, 2003) Chapter 4.
F. J. Duarte, Laser beam propagation matrices, in Tunable Laser Optics (Elsevier Academic, New York, 2003) Chapter 6.
F. J. Duarte, Multiple-prism dispersion equations for positive and negative refraction, Appl. Phys. B 82, 35-38 (2006).
F. J. Duarte, Generalized multiple-prism dispersion theory for laser pulse compression: higher order phase derivatives, Appl. Phys. B 96, 809-814 (2009).

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