Abstract: The invention is directed to an arrangement for an optical system for polarization-dependent, time-resolved optical spectroscopy, in particular a spectrometer that includes a polarization device which has a crystal polarizer and includes a light entry area which is arranged upstream of the polarization device and which is formed in such a way as to enclose a spatial acceptance angle of the crystal polarizer, and also that includes a light exit area which is arranged downstream of the polarization device, wherein an intermediate area which connects the light entry area and the light exit area is formed in the polarization device with a path length of at most approximately 4 mm which is traversed in the crystal polarizer by light impinging within the spatial acceptance angle.

Abstract: The invention is directed to an arrangement for an optical system for polarizalion-dependent, time-resolved optical spectroscopy, in particular a spectrometer that includes a polarization device which has a crystal polarizer and includes a light entry area which is arranged upstream of the polarization device and which is formed in such a way as to enclose a spatial acceptance angle of the crystal polarizer, and also that includes a light exit area which is arranged downstream of the polarization device, wherein an intermediate area which connects the light entry area and the light exit area is formed in the polarization device with a path length of at most approximately 4 mm which is traversed in the crystal polarizer by light impinging within the spatial acceptance angle.

Abstract: In a laser oscillator or laser amplifier, a so-called switching dye is used which strongly reduces the degree of amplification for the laser radiation after a short time interval, by means of transient absorption. Molecules or molecule systems in which a proton transfer takes place in the excited state can serve as switching dyes. The radiation pulse exciting the switching dye must have a sufficiently steep leading flank to assure that the excited state of the tautomeric form is rapidly occupied. The immediately following occupation of the ground state of the tautomeric form by emission of radiation and radiationless transitions, and/or of triplet states of the tautomeric and normal form by radiationless transitions, builds up a transient absorption and inhibits the rise of an inversion sufficient for renewed radiation emission.