Solid-state dye laser explained

thumb|Organic solid-state narrow-linewidth tunable dye laser oscillator[1]

A solid-state dye laser (SSDL) is a solid-state lasers in which the gain medium is a laser dye-doped organic matrix such as poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA), rather than a liquid solution of the dye. These lasers are also referred to as solid-state organic lasers and solid-state dye-doped polymer lasers.

SSDLs were introduced in 1967 by Soffer and McFarland.[2]

Organic gain media

In the 1990s, new forms of improved PMMA, such as modified PMMA, with high optical quality characteristics were introduced.[3] Gain media research for SSDL has been rather active in the 21st century, and various new dye-doped solid-state organic matrices have been discovered.[4] Notable among these new gain media are organic-inorganic dye-doped polymer-nanoparticle composites.[5] [6] [7] An additional form of organic-inorganic dye-doped solid-state laser gain media are the ORMOSILs.[7]

High performance solid-state dye laser oscillators

This improved gain medium was central to the demonstration of the first tunable narrow-linewidth solid-state dye laser oscillators, by Duarte,[8] which were later optimized to deliver pulse emission in the kW regime in nearly diffraction limited beams with single-longitudinal-mode laser linewidths of

\Delta\nu

≈ 350 MHz (or

\Deltaλ

≈ 0.0004 nm, at a laser wavelength of 590 nm).[9] These tunable laser oscillators use multiple-prism grating architectures[9] yielding very high intracavity dispersions that can be nicely quantified using the multiple-prism grating equations.[10]

Distributed feedback and waveguide solid-state dye lasers

Additional developments in solid-state dye lasers were demonstrated with the introduction of distributed feedback laser designs in 1999[11] [12] and distributed feedback waveguides in 2002.[13]

See also

Notes and References

  1. 10.1364/AO.37.003987. Long-pulse narrow-linewidth dispersive solid-state dye laser oscillator. 18273368. 1998. Duarte. F. J.. Taylor. T. S.. Costela. A.. Garcia-Moreno. I.. Sastre. R.. Applied Optics. 37. 18. 3987–3989. 1998ApOpt..37.3987D .
  2. 10.1063/1.1754804. Continuously Tunable, Narrow-Band Organic Dye Lasers. 1967. Soffer. B. H.. McFarland. B. B.. Applied Physics Letters. 10. 266. 1967ApPhL..10..266S. 10 .
  3. 10.1364/AO.34.001516. Solid-state dye laser with modified poly(methyl methacrylate)-doped active elements. 21037689. 1995. Maslyukov. A.. Sokolov. S.. Kaivola. M.. Nyholm. K.. Popov. S.. Applied Optics. 34. 9. 1516–1518. 1995ApOpt..34.1516M .
  4. A. J. C. Kuehne and M. C. Gather, Organic Lasers: Recent Developments on Materials, Device Geometries, and Fabrication Techniques, Chem. Rev. 116, 12823-12864 (2016).
  5. 10.1364/OL.28.002088. 14587824. Tunable solid-state lasers incorporating dye-doped polymer-nanoparticle gain media. 2003. Duarte. F. J.. James. R. O.. Optics Letters. 28. 21. 2088–90. 2003OptL...28.2088D .
  6. Book: Duarte, F. J. . Tunable Laser Applications . 2nd . . Boca Raton . 2009 . 978-1-4200-6009-6 . Costela, A. . Garcia-Moreno, I. . Sastre, R. . Solid state dye lasers. 97–120 .
  7. Book: Duarte, F. J. . Tunable Laser Applications . 2nd . . Boca Raton . 2009 . 978-1-4200-6009-6 . Duarte, F. J. . James, R. O. . Tunable lasers based on dye-doped polymer gain media incorporating homogeneous distributions of functional nanoparticles. 121–142 .
  8. 10.1364/AO.33.003857. 20935726. Solid-state multiple-prism grating dye-laser oscillators. 1994. Duarte, F. J.. F. J. Duarte. Applied Optics. 33. 18. 3857–3860. 1994ApOpt..33.3857D. F. J. .
  9. 10.1364/AO.38.006347. 18324163. Multiple-prism grating solid-state dye laser oscillator: optimized architecture. 1999. Duarte. F. J. . Applied Optics. 38. 30. 6347–6349. 1999ApOpt..38.6347D .
  10. Book: Tunable Laser Optics . 2nd. . New York . 2015 . 978-1-4822-4529-5 . Duarte, F. J. . The physics of multiple-prism optics. 77–100 .
  11. 10.1007/s003400050791. Efficient distributed feedback solid state dye laser with a dynamic grating. 1999. Wadsworth. W. J.. McKinnie. I. T.. Woolhouse. A. D.. Haskell. T. G.. Applied Physics B. 69. 2. 163–169. 1999ApPhB..69..163W . 122330477 .
  12. 10.1364/AO.39.003104. Distributed-feedback dye-doped solgel silica lasers. 2000. Zhu. X-L. Lam. S-K. Lo. D. . Applied Optics. 39. 18. 3104–3107. 2000ApOpt..39.3104Z. 18345240 .
  13. 10.1016/S0030-4018(02)02125-9. Long lifetime and high repetition rate operation from distributed feedback plastic waveguided dye lasers. 2002. Oki. Y.. Miyamoto. S.. Tanaka. M.. Zuo. D.. Maeda. M.. Optics Communications. 214. 1–6. 277–283 . 2002OptCo.214..277O .

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