Making blue light from green light

[tocket]

I'm just going to let these pictures that I just took speak for them self. There's no trickery going on here. It's simply making blue light from green. Even works with a 5 mW laser pointer.



Anyone care to guess how I did this?

[andythemechanic]

Upconversion via excited state absorbtion? Anyhow, very interesting!

[flecom]

does it come out blue or does it just look blue in the liquid?

[dsli_jon]

Hey Sir Tocket...

Anyone care to guess how I did this?

Fluorescein? Blueberry Jello? Well, whatever is is, get a focusing lens and a resonator on that puppy and send us s'more pix!

cheers...
j

PS - I think it's really bitchin that we have so many 'varied skills', here, within the 'PL-Family'... I think PL could make one helluva Laser Show Co. I mean, we've got it all -
EEs, MechE's, OpticalE's, Chemists, talented Machinists, Artists, Musicians, Programmers, Laserists, *real* DJs and, heh, a " Janitor " who's prose is so satirically razor-sharp and visual, that he should be writing screenplays

... We even have all the 'high-drama' elements of an Office / Co. - back-biting and 'office politics' and flame wars and fights and...
...heck, we've even got a 'Dartboard / Cooler-goon!'

Long live PL!
cheers...

[Robin]

Lanthanide nanoparticles?

[tocket]

Nice to see some guesses. You haven't managed to solve the mystery yet though. I'll give a first hint: The blue light is in fact quite violet - The emission peak is around 410 nm, but the emission is rather broad and comes from a well known organic dye.

Upconversion via excited state absorbtion? Anyhow, very interesting!

A bunch of excited states are involved - quite complex process. However, it does not require any double excitations, which is why it works at such low power densities.

does it come out blue or does it just look blue in the liquid?

It's just blue in the liquid. The absorbance of the solution is pretty low at 532 nm, so only a small part of the light is absorbed.

Fluorescein? Blueberry Jello? Well, whatever is is, get a focusing lens and a resonator on that puppy and send us s'more pix!

Wish I had a resonator. Though I suspect this system would actually prefer to lase at a completely different wavelength than 410 nm. Perhaps 700 nm? Not very useful for us.

Lanthanide nanoparticles?

No lanthanides required

[andythemechanic]

Nice to see some guesses. You haven't managed to solve the mystery yet though. I'll give a first hint: The blue light is in fact quite violet - The emission peak is around 410 nm, but the emission is rather broad and comes from a well known organic dye.


A bunch of excited states are involved - quite complex process. However, it does not require any double excitations, which is why it works at such low power densities.

Hm, is it possibly a FRET like energy transfer from serveral excited molecules to another? Do you have it published already?

Greetings
Andreas

[tocket]

Hm, is it possibly a FRET like energy transfer from serveral excited molecules to another? Do you have it published already?

Greetings
Andreas

You're getting close now. There's no Förster energy transfer involved in the process though.

Similar systems have been published. I don't think this particular one is out yet, but it's not my publication. I'm working more towards an application of it you could say.

[gottaluvlasers]

this thread is WAAAAAAAY beyond my pay scale! lol.

Very interesting though!

so, my answer of, "Pretty green light makes weird wet stuff turn blue-ey in color" is not an acceptable answer i gather?

-Marc

[tocket]

Time for another clue: The system is very sensitive to oxygen. If a little air gets in no blue light is generated.

this thread is WAAAAAAAY beyond my pay scale! lol.

Very interesting though!

so, my answer of, "Pretty green light makes weird wet stuff turn blue-ey in color" is not an acceptable answer i gather?

-Marc

Well, your answer is correct. Just not very specific.