Continuous-wave organic dye lasers and methods
Abstract
An organic dye laser produces a continuous-wave (cw) output without any moving parts (e.g., without using flowing dye streams or spinning discs of solid-state dye media to prevent photobleaching) and with a pump beam that is stationary with respect to the organic dye medium. The laser's resonant cavity, organic dye medium, and pump beam are configured to excite a lasing transition over a time scale longer than the associated decay lifetimes in the organic dye medium without photobleaching the organic dye medium. Because the organic dye medium does not photobleach when operating in this manner, it may be pumped continuously so as to emit a cw output beam. In some examples, operation in this manner lowers the lasing threshold (e.g., to only a few Watts per square centimeter), thereby facilitating electrical pumping for cw operation.
- Inventors:
- Issue Date:
- Research Org.:
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1158927
- Patent Number(s):
- 8,837,550
- Application Number:
- 13/787,399
- Assignee:
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- SC0001299; FG02-09ER46577
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 47 OTHER INSTRUMENTATION
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Shapira, Ofer, Chua, Song-Liang, Zhen, Bo, Lee, Jeongwon, and Soljacic, Marin. Continuous-wave organic dye lasers and methods. United States: N. p., 2014.
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