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A miniaturized, high repetition rate, picosecond all solid state photo-induced distributed feedback (DFB) polymer-dye laser is described by applying a passively Q-switched and frequency-doubled Cr4+:Nd3+:YAG-microchip laser (pulse width Δτ=540 ps, repetition rate ν=3 kHz, pump energy Epump=0.15 μJ) as a pump source. A poly-methylmethacrylate film doped with rhodamine B dye serves as active medium. The DFB-laser pulses are temporally and spectrally characterized, and the stability of the thin polymer/dye film at high repetition rates is analyzed. The shortest DFB-laser pulses obtained have a duration of 11 ps. After the emission of 350000 pulses the intensity of the DFB-laser output has decreased by a factor of two and the pulse duration has increased by a factor of 1.2. For single DFB-laser pulses of 20-ps duration the spectral bandwidth is measured to be Δλ=0.03 nm, which is only 0.005 nm above the calculated Fourier limit assuming a Gaussian profile for the temporal shape of the pulses. Coarse wavelength tuning of the DFB laser between 590 and 619 nm is done by turning the prism. Additionally, a fine tuning of the DFB-polymer-laser wavelength is achieved by changing the temperature of the polymer/dye layer (=-0.05 nm/°C) in the range from 20 to 40 °C.
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Received: 1 March 2001 / Revised version: 23 May 2001 / Published online: 18 July 2001
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Voss, T., Scheel, D. & Schade, W. A microchip-laser-pumped DFB-polymer-dye laser . Appl Phys B 73, 105–109 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/s003400100619
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s003400100619