Competition between two lasing modes of sulforhodamine 640 in highly scattering media

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作者
Sha, WL
Liu, CH
Liu, F
Alfano, RR
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[1] CUNY CITY COLL,DEPT PHYS,NEW YORK,NY 10031
[2] CUNY,GRAD SCH,NEW YORK,NY 10031
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10.1364/OL.21.001277
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O43 [光学];
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070207 ; 0803 ;
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Two lasing modes are observed for Sulforhodamine 640 in highly scattering media pumped by 3-ns 532-nm laser pulses. The stimulated-emission thresholds are found to depend on both concentration of laser dye and scattering particle density. At 2.5 X 10(-2) M dye solution with TiO2 scattering nanoparticles from 5 x 10(9) cm(-3) to 10(11) cm(-3), the thresholds are found to decrease by more than 2 orders of magnitude. The dominating lasing modes are found to switch from 650 to 620 nm with the increase of density of scatterers. (C) 1996 Optical Society of America
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