Solid-state dye laser

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Organic solid-state narrow-linewidth tunable dye laser oscillator

A solid-state dye laser (SSDL) is a solid-state lasers in which the gain medium is a laser dye-doped organic matrix such as poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA), rather than a liquid solution of the dye. These lasers are also referred to as solid-state organic lasers and solid-state dye-doped polymer lasers.

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SSDLs were introduced in 1967 by Soffer and McFarland. [2]

Organic gain media

In the 1990s, new forms of improved PMMA, such as modified PMMA, with high optical quality characteristics were introduced. [3] Gain media research for SSDL has been rather active in the 21st century, and various new dye-doped solid-state organic matrices have been discovered. [4] Notable among these new gain media are organic-inorganic dye-doped polymer-nanoparticle composites. [5] [6] [7] An additional form of organic-inorganic dye-doped solid-state laser gain media are the ORMOSILs. [7] [8]

High performance solid-state dye laser oscillators

This improved gain medium was central to the demonstration of the first tunable narrow-linewidth solid-state dye laser oscillators, by Duarte, [8] which were later optimized to deliver pulse emission in the kW regime in nearly diffraction limited beams with single-longitudinal-mode laser linewidths of ≈ 350 MHz (or ≈ 0.0004 nm, at a laser wavelength of 590 nm). [9] These tunable laser oscillators use multiple-prism grating architectures [9] yielding very high intracavity dispersions that can be nicely quantified using the multiple-prism grating equations. [10]

Distributed feedback and waveguide solid-state dye lasers

Additional developments in solid-state dye lasers were demonstrated with the introduction of distributed feedback laser designs in 1999 [11] [12] and distributed feedback waveguides in 2002. [13]

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