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Ruby LASER: Construction and working with Diagram

July 7, 2018 by Dr. IM Leave a Comment

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  • Explain Ruby LASER under the following heads: Construction – working with Diagram.
  • Ruby LASER
      • Ruby LASER Construction: (i) Active medium:
    • (iii) Pumping system:
      • Working of Ruby LASER:

Explain Ruby LASER under the following heads: Construction – working with Diagram.

Ruby LASER

Ruby LASER Construction:
(i) Active medium:

It is a solid-state laser, in which a rod of a synthetic ruby crystal is used as an active medium. The ruby crystal is obtained by doping a small amount (about 0.05% by weight) of chromium oxide (Cr2O3) in Aluminum oxide (Al2O3), so that some of the aluminum ions (Al3+) are replaced by chromium ions (Cr3+). These chromium ions give the crystal a pink or red color depending upon the doping concentration. Al2O3 only acts as the host while the chromium ions act as active centers in ruby crystal and responsible for the laser action. The length of the ruby rod is usually 2 cm to 30 cm and the diameter is 0.5 cm to 2 cm. Ruby LASER

(ii) Optical resonator:




To construct the optical resonator cavity, the ends of the rods are polished such that they become flat and parallel to each other. Now one of the ends is coated with silver completely while the other one is partially silvered. Thus, the two silver-coated ends of the rod act as an optical resonator system.

(iii) Pumping system:

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The ruby rod is placed inside a helically shaped xenon flash lamp to excite the Cr3+ ions. Thus, in ruby laser population inversion is achieved by using optical pumping.

Working of Ruby LASER:

Ruby is a three energy level laser system. After absorbing light photons of wavelength 5500 Å from xenon flash lamp, some of the Cr3+ ions at ground energy level E1 get excited to higher energy level E3. At this energy level, they are unstable and by losing a part of their energy to the crystal lattice, they fall to the metastable energy level E2, whose lifetime is much longer (about 10-3 s). Therefore, the number of Cr3+ ions goes on increasing in E2 state while the number of these ions in ground state E2 goes on decreasing due to pumping by the flash lamp and soon the population inversion is achieved between states E2 and E1.

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Now some of the Cr3+ ions will decay spontaneously to the ground state E1 by emitting photons of wavelength 6943 Å. The photons that are moving parallel to the axis of the rod will reflect back and forth by the silvered ends of the rod and stimulate other excited Cr3+ ions to radiate another photon with the same phase. Thus, due to successive reflections of these photons at the ends of the rod, the number of photons multiplies. After a few microseconds, a monochromatic, intense, and collimated beam of red light of wavelength 6943 Å emerges through the partially silvered end of the rod. The Ruby laser is a pulsed laser that emits light in the form of very short pulses.

 

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