CONTINUUM Nanosecond Dye Laser: the ND6000

CONTINUUM Nanosecond Dye Laser: the ND6000

The ND6000 is a pulsed, tunable dye laser, combining high performance with ease of use. Its proprietary, grazing incidence oscillator and transverse pumped amplifiers result in high efficiency, low amplified spontaneous emission (ASE), and linewidth of < 0.08 cm-1 at 560 nm. Its revolutionary circulator permits quick and easy dye changes. The laser tunes from 200 nm to 4.5 痠 with the help of a crystal tracking option which electronically tunes the UVX and IRP wavelength extension packages. Grating options can provide narrower bandwidths and also extend the tuning range further into the infrared.

Etalon-free narrow linewidth output permits rapid optimized scanning
Can be pumped by most frequency doubled Nd:YAG lasers from 100 mJ to 1 J
Proprietary narrow linewidth oscillator (U.S. Patent #4,490,021) with low background fluorescence
PC control for ease of use locally or remotely

UV Frequency Extensions
Our UV extension packages use doubling, mixing, and mixing-after-doubling crystals to extend the wavelength range of our tunable dye and OPO sources into the UV. All UVX options are used to double, mix and/or mix after doubling the output of the ND6000 dye laser. The UVT options contain the automatic trackers which keep the crystals optimally tuned while the dye laser scans over a range of wavelengths.

UVT-1, UVX-1 doubles the dye laser output and covers the 206 nm to 425 nm range.
UVT-2, UVX-2 mixes the dye laser fundamental output with residual 1064 nm from the pump laser to cover the 245 nm to 430 nm range.
UVT-3, UVX-3 mixes doubled dye laser output with residual 1064 nm to cover the 220 nm to 245 nm range; it also doubles and mixes the fundamental.

IR Frequency Extensions
The IRP package use difference frequency mixing in LiNbO3 to extend the tuning range of dye lasers to 1.5 痠 to 4.5. 痠. Automatic trackers of the IRP use feedback control to maintain maximum conversion efficiencies while the tunable source scans over a wavelength range.