ABSTRACT
Dye lasers as medical instruments have potential advantages over other lasers. They are unique sources of tunable coherent radiation, from the near ultraviolet to the near infrared, through hundreds of laser dye molecular species. The tuning range of pulsed narrow-bandwidth emission achievable with a single dye can be up to 50 nm. Signifi cantly broader tuning ranges (up to 100 nm) can be obtained with some dyes under pulsed broadband and continuous-wave (CW) operation.
