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Dye lasers with a difference

Nature Photonics volume 6, pages 576–577 (2012)Cite this article

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Scientists have shown that Förster resonance energy transfer can be used to realize new designs of dye laser that offer improved photostability and access to new pumping and emission wavelengths.

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Figure 1: Schematic of a polymer core–shell nanoparticle loaded with Rh6G (green dots) and NB (red dots) dyes.

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  1. José M. G. Martinho is at Centro de Química-Física Molecular and IN — Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Av. Rovisco Pais 1, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal,

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