Development of a multi-stripe plastic dye laser array for a laser spectroscopy novel application of an integrated tunable laser system

摘要

Integrated and compact tunable laser was developed on dye doped plastic waveguides. Single mode stripped waveguides were fabricated, and distributed feedback structures were recorded on them. The plastic waveguided DFB laser operation was in the region of 560 nm～994 nm by introducing seven different kinds of laser dyes. Threshold energy of the integrated dye lase was 0.5μJ with a repetition rate of 1 kHz, and dye durability of 5 million shots could be attained by using a micro-chip Nd:YAG laser (SHG) as a pumping source. The proposed 'Spatially Dispersive Digital Spectrosopy' was demonstrated by using a fabricated multi-stripe, multi-wavelength DFB dye laser array.