Bb. Raju et Ts. Varadarajan, PHOTOPHYSICAL PROPERTIES AND ENERGY-TRANSFER DYE-LASER CHARACTERISTICS OF 7-DIETHYLAMINO-3-HETEROARYL COUMARIN IN SOLUTION, Laser chemistry, 16(2), 1995, pp. 109-120
Photophysical properties and Energy transfer Dye Laser (ETDL) characte
ristics of a new dye: 7-Diethyl Amino Coumarin with a Heteroaryl subst
itution in the 3-position (DACH), are presented. The suitability of DA
CH as a laser dye has been verified on the basis of the absorption and
fluorescence characteristics in aprotic solvents. The dye laser chara
cteristics of the dye pumped by the available nitrogen laser have been
successfully investigated in dimethylsulfoxide by energy transfer dye
laser mechanism, using coumarin 1 as a donor dye. DACH has been found
to lase in the blue-green region of the visible spectrum. The experim
ental and theoretical values of energy transfer rate constant (k(ET))
and the critical transfer distance (R(0)) have been calculated in two
different solvents to determine the nature of energy transfer. The res
ults indicate the dominance of resonance transfer in this ETDL.