Heat dissipation study of polymeric dye laser materials by using photothermal deflection spectroscopy

Lucia B. Scaffardi; R. Duchowicz; Angel Costela; Inmaculada Garcia-Moreno; Roberto Sastre; A. U. Acuna

doi:10.1117/12.437077

14 August 2001 Heat dissipation study of polymeric dye laser materials by using photothermal deflection spectroscopy

Lucia B. Scaffardi, R. Duchowicz, Angel Costela, Inmaculada Garcia-Moreno, Roberto Sastre, A. U. Acuna

Proceedings Volume 4419, 4th Iberoamerican Meeting on Optics and 7th Latin American Meeting on Optics, Lasers, and Their Applications; (2001) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.437077
Event: IV Iberoamerican Meeting of Optics and the VII Latin American Meeting of Optics, Lasers and Their Applications, 2001, Tandil, Argentina

Abstract

The main shortcoming of the use of synthetic polymers as host in the development of dye laser materials is their low laser-damage threshold and the photodegradation of the dye. The more important process that limit the lifetime of the material should be a photochemical mechanism although photothermal processes produce some contributions. In this work, we have investigated the thermal response of the material when different quantities of energy are loaded during the pump process. Photothermal deflection spectroscopy was used in the investigation. The characteristics of the photothermal signal were analyzed as a function of the laser repetition rate. This study is related wit the decay of the laser output energy with the pump rate due to photodegradation observed previously in similar samples. Results show that the photothermal signal follows a linear dependence with the pump rate. The thermal effects increase strongly when the pump rate is larger than 1 Hz. This fact affects the mobility of the dye molecules and reactive species in the matrix, increasing the possibility of chemical degradation. Results of a theoretical simulation of the deflection signal using an optical dense materials model is included.

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Lucia B. Scaffardi, R. Duchowicz, Angel Costela, Inmaculada Garcia-Moreno, Roberto Sastre, and A. U. Acuna "Heat dissipation study of polymeric dye laser materials by using photothermal deflection spectroscopy", Proc. SPIE 4419, 4th Iberoamerican Meeting on Optics and 7th Latin American Meeting on Optics, Lasers, and Their Applications, (14 August 2001); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.437077

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Polymers

Molecules

Spectroscopy

Dye lasers

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Laser energy

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