Materials for a Reliable Solid‐State Dye Laser at the Red Spectral Edge

Abstract

In the search to extend the tuning range of solid‐state dye lasers (SSDLs) to the red‐edge spectral region, new photosensitive materials have been designed and synthesized based on six commercial dyes (sulforhodamine B, perylene red, rhodamine 640, LDS698, LDS722, and LDS730) incorporated into different linear, crosslinked, fluorinated, and sililated polymeric matrices. Under transversal pumping at 532 nm, these materials exhibit highly efficient, stable, as well as wavelength‐tunable laser action from the visible‐to‐NIR spectral region (575–750 nm). The lasing performance of the materials doped with perylene and xanthene dyes is, to the best of our knowledge, the highest achieved to date for these chromophores when incorporated into organic, inorganic, or hybrid matrices. Regarding the LDS derivatives, this is the first time that laser action from these dyes in solid‐state media is reported. These particular characteristics have impelled the building of the first prototype SSDL that is compact, versatile, and easy to handle.

Distributed feedback lasers based on perylenediimide dyes for label-free refractive index sensing

“…Among many families of laser dyes, pyrromethenes and perylenediimides (PDIs) are among the most photostable (independently on the type of matrix or device). There has been extensive work in the development of sophisticated matrixes including the dye covalently linked (not dispersed), in which dyes such those of the Rhodamine family, or others, can improve their photostability significantly [27]. [24,31].…”

Triple Phase Boundary Photovoltammetry: Resolving Rhodamine B Reactivity in 4‐(3‐Phenylpropyl)‐Pyridine Microdroplets

“…Rhodamine B (see Figure 1 A) is a well-known xanthene dye molecule [27] with applications as a laser dye, [28] in flow injection analysis with chemiluminescence detection, [29] for hot electroninduced chemiluminescence, [30] as fluoresecent chemosensors, [31] as a structural probe for DNA and proteins, [32,33] as a sensitizer for photoinjection of electrons at semiconductor sur-Rhodamine B base is employed as a photoactive redox system in a liquid j liquid j electrode triple phase boundary electrochemical experiment. Microdroplets of the water-immiscible 3-(4-phenylpropyl)-pyridine (PPP) containing rhodamine B are deposited onto a basal plane pyrolytic graphite electrode surface which is then immersed into an aqueous solution containing 0.5 m phosphate buffer solution (pH 12).…”

Analytical study of vertical external-cavity surface-emitting organic lasers

“…via spin coating or thermal evaporation) which has led to sometimes compact, tunable and inexpensive solid-state laser sources with potential applications in different fields such as spectroscopy [4,5], bio/chemo sensing [6,7] and short-haul data telecommunications via plastic optical fibers [8]. There are numerous reports of such devices under optical pumping in different laser configurations such as distributed feedback resonators [9], vertical microcavities [10,11] and external-cavity resonators [12]. In the perspective of having compact organic laser sources which integrate the pump and the laser cavity in a small-volume device, there have been several achievements through indirect electrical pumping of organic solid-state lasers via Light Emitting Diodes [13] or nitride diode lasers [14,15] by means of somehow sophisticated electronic circuitry systems for the pump source to make it operate in a pulsed regime.…”