Toward millions of laser pulses using pyrromethene and perylene doped xerogels

Mohammed Faloss (1) , Michael Canva (1) , Patrick Georges (2) , Alain Brun (2) , Frédéric Chaput (3) , Jean-Pierre Boilot (3)

1 Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l'Institut d'Optique / Macsybio
2 Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l'Institut d'Optique / Elsa
3 LPMC - Laboratoire de physique de la matière condensée

Significant improvements have been obtained for solid-state dye lasers with doped xerogels. By using longitudinal pumping with a frequency-doubled Q-switched Nd: YAG laser, we obtained as much as 86% slope efficiency and 5 3 105 pulses lifetime. Furthermore, newly prepared deoxygenated samples exhibited even greater lifetimes

Domains: Physics [physics]; Physics [physics]; Optics [physics.optics]

Mohammed Faloss, Michael Canva, Patrick Georges, Alain Brun, Frédéric Chaput, et al.. Toward millions of laser pulses using pyrromethene and perylene doped xerogels. Applied optics, 1997, 36 (27), pp.6760-6763. ⟨hal-00668504⟩