COMSATS university Islamabad

(Department of Chemistry)

Course: Laser and Emission Spectroscopy (CHM521)

Assignment # 3 Dated: 30/04/2020

1. Consider a small pulsed mercury-ion laser (with output in the green) which has a tube 0.1
m long and a gain of 50% per meter. The gain in this particular laser is exceedingly large;
few other gas lasers have gains of 50% per meter! Assume that the total reflector has a
loss of 0.1% (these are special, dielectric mirrors). Most ion lasers have Brewster
windows; in this case, assume that each has a loss of 0.8%. Finally, the tube has an
attenuation of 0.1 m. Given these parameters, calculate the maximum transmission, in
percent, that can be extracted through one of the mirrors as an output beam. (4)

2. The gain per unit length of a laser is 0.01/cm -1, what will be the amplification after 20cm.
Remember that amplification increases exponentially with the gain and length.
3. The round trip loss of helium-neon laser light in a cavity is 2%. The output mirror lets 1%
of the light escape in the beam. When the laser is operating in a steady state, what is the
round-trip amplification/Gain in the laser, measured as a percentage?
4. The helium-cadmium laser has a wavelength of 442nm .What is the round-trip length of a
30-cm long cavity measured in wavelengths?