Abstract

The competing cavity dye lasers (CCDL) are capable of generating pulses which are 20-40 times shorter than the duration of the pumping pulses. The advantages of CCDLs are their simplicity and reliability. Until now, the CCDL was excited by N₂ or excimer lasers, and the repetition rate was too low (up to ~ 100 pps) for the time-correlated single-photon counting technique (TCSPC). In this paper, a high-repetition-rate (10 kHz) short-pulse CCDL pumped by a Cu-vapor laser is described.

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