Brief Biography

Angel Costela received his Ph.D. in Physics from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. He holds currently the position of Researcher at Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid. In addition to his tenure at CSIC, Dr. Costela has been a visiting scientist at the Clarendon Laboratory of The University of Oxford. Research interests include the study and development of solid state dye lasers, laser ablation of materials, nonlinear optics, holographic recording in photopolymers, and the photochemistry of new photoinitiators of polymerization. Dr. Costela is a Fellow of The Optical Society of America.

Selected Publications

• A. Costela, I. García-Moreno, R. Sastre, D.W. Coutts, and C.E. Webb, High repetition rate polymeric solid-state dye lasers pumped by a copper-vapor laser, Appl. Phys. Lett. 79, 452-454 (2001).
• K. M. Abedin, M. Alvarez, A. Costela, I. García-Moreno, O. García, R. Sastre, D.W. Coutts, and C.E. Webb, 10 kHz repetition rate solid-state dye laser pumped by diode-pumped solid-state laser, Opt. Commun. 218, 359-363 (2003).
• A. Costela, I. García-Moreno, and R. Sastre, Polymeric solid-state dye lasers: recent developments, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 5, 4745-4763 (2003).
• I. García-Moreno, A. Costela, L. Campo, R. Sastre, F. Amat-Guerri, M. Liras, F. López Arbeloa, J. Bañuelos Prieto, and I. López Arbeloa, 8-phenyl-substituted dipyrromethene BF₂ complexes as highly efficient and photostable laser dyes, J. Phys. Chem. A. 108, 3315-3323 (2004).
• A. Costela, I. García-Moreno, C. Gómez, O. García, L. Garrido, and R. Sastre, Highly efficient and stable doped hybrid organic-inorganic materials for solid-state dye lasers, Chem. Phys. Lett. 387, 496-501 (2004).
• A. Costela, I. García-Moreno, D. del Agua, O. García, and R. Sastre, Silicon-containing organic matrices as hosts for highly photostable solid-state dye lasers, Appl. Phys. Lett. 85, 2160-2162 (2004).
• F. J. Duarte and A. Costela, Dye lasers, in Encyclopedia of Modern Optics, B. D. Guenther, Ed. (Elsevier, New York, 2004) pp. 400-414.
• A. Costela, I. García-Moreno, O. García, D. del Agua, R. Sastre, Structural influence of the inorganic network in the laser performance of dye-doped hybrid materials, Appl. Phys. B 80, 749-755 (2005).
• A. Costela, I. García-Moreno, D. del Agua, O. García, and R. Sastre, Solid-state dye-lasers: new materials based on silicon, Opt. J. 1, 1-6 (2007).

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Updated on the 20th of October, 2007