Characteristics of organic dye lasers as tunable frequency sources for nanosecond absorption of spectroscopy

The properties of 1, 1' diethyl-γ-cyano-2,2'-di-carbocyanine-tetrafluoroborate (DTCDCT)and 1, 1'-diethyl-γ-nitro- 4, 4'-di-carbocyanine-tetrafluoroborate (DTNDCT) lasers have been investigated. High-efficiency (25 percent) spectral narrowing of the normal 150-A-wide, 2-MW output of DTCDCT (around λ 7600 A) to 150 MW peak power) produces a train of 100 percent modulated mode-locked dye laser pulses whose risetimes ( 75 \times 10^{-3} cm-1of the λ 7699-A resonance line was detected for a ruby laser perturbing field of power density ∼ 30 MW/cm-2.