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- Title
- 10 kHz repetition rate solid-state dye laser pumped by a diode-pumped solid state laser
- Related
- Optics communications, Vol. 218, Issue 4-6, (2003), p.359-363
- DOI
- 10.1016/S0030-4018(03)01207-0
- Publisher
- Elsevier B V
- Date
- 2003
- FoR/RFCD Code(s)
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020500 Optical Physics
- Author/Creator
- Abedin, K. M
- Author/Creator
- Alvarez, M
- Author/Creator
- Costela, A
- Author/Creator
- Garcia-Moreno, I
- Author/Creator
- Garcia, O
- Author/Creator
- Sastre, R
- Author/Creator
- Coutts, D. W
- Author/Creator
- Webb, C. E
- Description
- We describe the operation of an all solid-state pulsed dye laser of high repetition rate (10 kHz) pumped by a diode-pumped laser. Three different active media in the form of coin-sized disks were investigated: the dye rhodamine 6G doped in a copolymer of methyl methacrylate (MMA) and 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate (HEMA) [Rh6G/P(MMA:HEMA)], and the dye pyrromethene 567 (PM567) doped in copolymers of MMA with pentaerythritol triacrylate (PETA) and with pentaerythritol tetraacrylate (PETRA) [PM567/P(MMA:PETA) and PM567/P(MMA:PETRA)]. Pump radiation at 527nm was provided by a frequency-doubled diode-pumped Nd:YLF laser Q-switched at 10 kHz. Laser output was observed with an initial average power of 560 mW for Rh6G in P(MMA:HEMA), and with an initial average power of 430 mW for PM567 in P(MMA:PETRA) and 220 mW for PM567 in P(MMA:PETA). In the case of Rh6G/P(MMA:HEMA), the output decreased to about half the initial value after about 6.6 min (or about 4.0 million shots) due to dye degradation. The device constitutes a tunable, all solid-state, high repetition rate laser system possibly suitable for biomedical and dermatological applications.
- Description
- 5 page(s)
- Subject Keyword
- 020500 Optical Physics
- Subject Keyword
- solid-state dye laser
- Subject Keyword
- high repetition rate
- Subject Keyword
- doped polymer
- Subject Keyword
- rhodamine
- Subject Keyword
- pyrromethene
- Subject Keyword
- biomedical applications
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Organisation
- Macquarie University. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/138776
- Identifier
- ISSN:0030-4018
- Identifier
- mq-rm-2006008622
- Language
- eng
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