Investigation of energy transfer between PM567:Rh610 dye mixture in modified poly (methyl methacrylate)

In this paper, solid dye samples were prepared by codoping laser dyes Pyrromethene 567 (PM567) as the energy donor and Rhodamine 610 (Rh610) as the energy acceptor into the ethanol modified poly (methyl methacrylate) matrix (MPMMA) to enhance the properties of the solid dye lasers. The fluorescence intensity of the acceptor was enhanced by up to 9 fold with the introduction of the donor molecules. The laser efficiency of the dye mixture doped samples was improved by up to 8 times relative to that of the samples solely doped with the acceptor, and the highest slope efficiency was obtained as 70.4%. The radiative and nonradiative energy transfer rate constants (K-R and K-NR) were calculated using the Stern-Volmer plots and the acceptor concentration dependence of the radiative and nonradiative transfer efficiencies were also obtained. The K-R was three orders of magnitude higher than the K-NR, indicating the dominance of the radiative energy transfer mechanism in the present system. The deviation of the Stern-Volmer plot from the linearity demonstrated that both the dynamic and transient quenching mechanism exist in the present energy transfer system. (C) 2013 Published by Elsevier B.V.