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Newly Developed Solid State Lasers

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Spectroscopy and Dynamics of Collective Excitations in Solids

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A new type of solid state lasers tunable in the visible range has been developed recently.

Incorporation of perylimide and pyrromethene dyes into glasses prepared by the sol gel method allows to design new types of visible, stable solid lasers. These can be prepared either in the form of slabs or rods or as waveguiding active media deposited on glass or polymer supports. The difference between the refractive indices of the film and its support determines whether waveguiding occurs in the film or a leaky waveguide laser is formed. The efficiency of the lasers obtained recently is up to 70 per cent when appropriate optical pumping is designed.

We discuss the chemical and physical aspects of the photostability of the dyes in glasses, phenomena responsible for non radiative relaxation of their excited state, and energy efficiencies of laser.

Enrique Berman, Professor of Solar Energy

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Reisfeld, R. (1997). Newly Developed Solid State Lasers. In: Di Bartolo, B., Kyrkos, S. (eds) Spectroscopy and Dynamics of Collective Excitations in Solids. NATO ASI Series, vol 356. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5835-4_19

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