It is believed for a long time that optical quality of liquid gain-medium (dye solution) of high pulse-repetition-frequency dye laser is degraded by its turbulent flow but so far this belief is not verified by direct experiment. We have devised a novel experiment to study the exclusive effect of turbulent flow on the optical quality of the dye solution pumped by copper vapour laser. The experiment, based on interferometry, shows that the turbulent flow does not degrade the optical quality of the flowing dye solution.

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湍流染料溶液的光学质量

长期以来，人们认为高脉冲重复频率染料激光器的液体增益介质（染料溶液）的光学质量会因其湍流而降低，但目前尚未通过直接实验验证这一观点。我们设计了一个新颖的实验来研究湍流对铜蒸汽激光器泵浦的染料溶液的光学质量的唯一影响。基于干涉测量的实验表明，湍流不会降低流动染料溶液的光学质量。