Two-photon pumped frequency-upconversion lasing of a new blue-green dye material

Guang S. He; Lixiang Yuan; Paras N. Prasad; Alessandro Abbotto; Antonio Facchetti; Giorgio A. Pagani

doi:10.1016/S0030-4018(97)00149-1

Two-photon pumped frequency-upconversion lasing of a new blue-green dye material

Guang S. He^*, Lixiang Yuan, Paras N. Prasad, Alessandro Abbotto, Antonio Facchetti, Giorgio A. Pagani

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The two-photon absorption and two-photon pumped (TPP) frequency-upconverted green lasing properties of a new dye, 1-(N-methyl-4-pyridinio)-2-(N-methylpyrrol-2-yl)ethene triflate (abbreviated as M-PPE) have been experimentally investigated. This new dye exhibits a low lasing threshold and high lasing efficiency when pumped with a 800-nm pulsed laser beam. The spectral, temporal, and spatial structures as well as the output/input characteristics of the TPP cavity lasing were measured using a 1 cm-path quartz cuvette filled with the M-PPE solution in dimethyl sulfoxide. The net conversion efficiency from the absorbed 800-nm pump pulse energy to the ∼ 543-nm upconverted cavity lasing energy was found to be as high as ∼ 11%.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	49-52
Number of pages	4
Journal	Optics Communications
Volume	140
Issue number	1-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0030-4018(97)00149-1
State	Published - Jul 15 1997

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