Abstract
Since dye lasers are very widely tunable from near ultra-violet to near infrared, so that it had been used in high resolution spectroscopy and many other applications. A linear flashlamppumped dye laser is very useful for its low cost and high output power or high energy, as well as a good beam quality and sharp tunability. However, several flashlamps are required for excitation in order to obtain an output energy over several joules. We have achieved a dye laser output of 18 J with a single flashlamp, by employing a multi-stage Marx-bank driver and optimizing the output mirror reflectivity as well as by choosing appropiate dye cell size and the dye concentration.
