Stable doped hybrid sol-gel materials for solid-state dye laser

Tran Hong Nhung (1) , Michael Canva (2) , Truon Thi Anh Dao (1) , Frédéric Chaput (3) , Alain Brun (4) , Nguyen Dai Hung (5) , Jean-Pierre Boilot (3)

1 Institut of Physics and Electronics
2 Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l'Institut d'Optique / Macsybio
3 LPMC - Laboratoire de physique de la matière condensée
4 Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l'Institut d'Optique / Elsa
5 Center for Quantum Electronics [Hanoi]

Laser effects have been obtained with dye-doped hybrid xerogel samples prepared several years ago and stored in different "classical" conditions. Firstly, using the same configuration of the laser cavity as was used 4-5 years ago, we have obtained almost identical laser performances, and slope conversion efficiencies were measured up to 80% and operational lifetimes, with 1-mJ initial output energy and 10-Hz repetition rate of several hundred thousand pulses obtained. Secondly, we have introduced the new pyrromethene 605 dye into a hybrid xerogel matrix and obtained good laser performances similar to the rest of the pyrromethene family

Domains: Optics [physics.optics]

Tran Hong Nhung, Michael Canva, Truon Thi Anh Dao, Frédéric Chaput, Alain Brun, et al.. Stable doped hybrid sol-gel materials for solid-state dye laser. Applied optics, 2003, 42 (12), pp.2213-2218. ⟨hal-00664956⟩