Polarization of radiation amplified by dye solutions

Chernyavsky, V. A.; Pikulik, L. G.; Rudik, K. I.; Grib, A. F.

doi:10.1088/1355-5111/10/3/004

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“…It is widely recognized that the intense laser pump radiation in dye laser systems induces an anisotropy in the solution that affects the polarization state of the amplified laser radiation 34 35 36 37 38 . This anisotropy is induced by two different effects, a phase anisotropy due to a difference in refractive indices “feel” by the different cavity modes, and an amplitude anisotropy due to a dissimilar amplification of them.…”

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“…This anisotropy is induced by two different effects, a phase anisotropy due to a difference in refractive indices “feel” by the different cavity modes, and an amplitude anisotropy due to a dissimilar amplification of them. Most experimental works thoroughly studying the laser induced anisotropy have been carried out in amplifiers 34 35 36 37 38 . On the other hand, the existing experimental works dealing with the oscillator only focused on the output intensity and the degree of polarization 26 28 29 30 31 32 , and the complete picture has only been dealt theoretically 35 , with no quantitative results available, hence the relevance of the present work.…”

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Circularly polarized laser emission induced in isotropic and achiral dye systems

Cerdán

García-Moreno

Costela

et al. 2016

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The production of efficient, tunable, and switchable circularly polarized laser emission would have far reaching implications in optical communications or biophotonics. In this work, it is demonstrated the direct generation of circularly polarized (CP) laser emission in achiral and isotropic dye laser systems without the use of extracavity polarizing elements, and without resorting to chiral dyes, chiral liquid crystal matrices, or interferometric methods. The origin of this ellipticity arises from the dynamic birefringence induced by the strong and polarized laser pumping and the subsequent orientation anisotropy of the excited molecular dipoles. A complete polarimetric characterization of the polarization state of conventional dye laser oscillators as a function of different experimental parameters is performed and it is shown that the generated light always possesses a certain level of circularity that changes in a distinctive way with pump energy and polarization. These results demonstrate that it is possible to generate and modulate CP laser light from efficient and photostable conventional laser dyes.

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Circularly polarized laser emission induced in isotropic and achiral dye systems

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García-Moreno

Costela

et al. 2016

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“…14 Although the refractive index anisotropy generated in these experiments is usually strong, 31 the resulting CPLE levels have tended to zero thus far, since the polarization planes of the emitted light and the LIB fast axis are parallel. 14 These two previous magnitudes are intrinsically coupled, as both are determined by the orientation of the emission transition dipole moment, which in turn is fixed by the pump polarization plane.…”

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Circularly polarized laser emission in optically active organic dye solutions

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Moreno

Johnson

et al. 2017

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys.

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The generation of circularly polarized laser emission (CPLE) in photonic devices has attracted increasing attention due to the prospects of using CP light in displaying technologies or advanced microscopies. Organic systems excel as laser materials across the whole visible spectrum, and despite many of them displaying circularly polarized luminescence (CPL), none have been shown thus far to amplify their own CPL, let alone generate CPLE. Consequently, there is still a need to find alternative CPLE organic devices. Herein we demonstrate an effective strategy for achieving strong levels of CPLE (|glum| ~ 0.1–0.2) by using solutions of an achiral dye dissolved in optically active solvents to exploit the full potential of the dynamic birefringence induced by the intense and polarized laser pumping. The present approach enables changing the CPLE handedness by changing the handedness of the solvent optical activity, opening new avenues for developing cost-effective and easily processable chiro-photonic materials.

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