Highly stable solid state dye lasers based on polymer-filled nanoporous silica aerogels

Angel Costela; Inmaculada Garcia-Moreno; Clara Gomez; Olga Garcia; Roberto Sastre; Elies Molins; Anna Roig

doi:10.1117/12.543881

1 September 2004 Highly stable solid state dye lasers based on polymer-filled nanoporous silica aerogels

Angel Costela, Inmaculada Garcia-Moreno, Clara Gomez, Olga Garcia, Roberto Sastre, Elies Molins, Anna Roig

Proceedings Volume 5460, Solid State Lasers and Amplifiers; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.543881
Event: Photonics Europe, 2004, Strasbourg, France

Abstract

New hybrid matrices based on silica aerogels obtained under supercritical conditions, a highly porous material with porosityt up to 90%, have been synthesized. The open porous network of the aerogel was saturated with pyrromethene dyes solved in organic mooners, and polymerization took place inside of the silica structure. The resulting polymer filled nanoporous aerogels, cast in the form of cylindrical monoliths, were used as gain media in solid-state dye lasers. Under the demanding conditions of tightly focused transversal pumping with 532 nm, 5 mJ pulses at 10 Hz repetition rate, highly photostable laser emission was obtained.

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Angel Costela, Inmaculada Garcia-Moreno, Clara Gomez, Olga Garcia, Roberto Sastre, Elies Molins, and Anna Roig "Highly stable solid state dye lasers based on polymer-filled nanoporous silica aerogels", Proc. SPIE 5460, Solid State Lasers and Amplifiers, (1 September 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.543881

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