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Photodegradation of Luminescence in SiO2 : Rh B Gels Exposed to YAG : Nd Laser Pulses

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Silicate gels doped with organic dyes have been proposed as solid-state tunable lasers. Photobleaching of the dye under laser excitation is an important phenomenon in this application. The optical absorption and luminescence of SiO2 silica gels doped with Rhodamine B exposed to the second harmonic pulses of a YAG : Nd laser have been studied. In addition to the characteristic exponential decay with the number of pulses, overlapping oscillations in the intensity were observed. This behavior is explained in terms of a long lived metastable electronic excited state of the dye molecules.

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  1. Instituto de Fisica, UNAM, P.O. Box 20-364, 01000, Mexico, D.F., Mexico

    J. Garcia, E. Ramirez & M.A. Mondragon

  2. Centro de Instrumentos, UNAM, P.O. Box 70-186, 04511, Mexico, D.F., Mexico

    R. Ortega & P. Loza

  3. Departamento de Quimica, UAM (Iztapalapa), P.O. Box 55-534, 09340 Mexico, D.F., Mexico

    A. Campero

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Garcia, J., Ramirez, E., Mondragon, M. et al. Photodegradation of Luminescence in SiO2 : Rh B Gels Exposed to YAG : Nd Laser Pulses. Journal of Sol-Gel Science and Technology 13, 657–661 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008624201781

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