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TABLE 1 9 Performance of Solid-state Dye Lasers

Excitation Output Concentration
Matrix Dye sowce energy % Efficiency (mM) Reference

PMMA Rhodamine 590 flashlamp 50 mJ 0.1 1
PMMA Coumarin 540 flashlamp SO mJ 0.14
MPMMA Rhodamine 6G Nd:glass lasera 50
MPMMA 11B 52
Hydroxypropyl acrylateNMA PM-570h Nd:YAG laserf! 128 mJ 85 0.32
TMOS Sulforhodamine 640 Nd:YAG laser" 10 pJ 20
TEOS Rhodamine 6G Nd lasefl -240 PJ -40
TEOS Rhodamine 6G Flashlamp-pumped dye laser 2.5 mJd 2.0
ORMOSIL Rhodamine 6G Nd:YAG lase^ 150 pJ 30
Rhodamine 6G Nd:YAG lase~ 3.5 mJ 35% 0.086
"Second harmonic.
*I ,3,5,7,8-pentamethy1-2, 6-di-n-b~tylpyrromethene-BF~
(The dye used was coumarin 525.
dThe pulse length was 60 ns (FWHM).