Solution-processable, photo-stable, low-threshold, and broadly tunable thin film organic lasers based on novel high-performing laser dyes

María A. Díaz-García; Marta Morales-Vidal; Manuel G. Ramírez; José M. Villalvilla; Pedro G. Boj; José A. Quintana; A. Retolaza; S. Merino

doi:10.1117/12.2187015

22 September 2015 Solution-processable, photo-stable, low-threshold, and broadly tunable thin film organic lasers based on novel high-performing laser dyes

María A. Díaz-García, Marta Morales-Vidal, Manuel G. Ramírez, José M. Villalvilla, Pedro G. Boj, José A. Quintana, A. Retolaza, S. Merino

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Proceedings Volume 9566, Organic Light Emitting Materials and Devices XIX; 95660Q (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2187015
Event: SPIE Organic Photonics + Electronics, 2015, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Thin film organic lasers (TFOLs) represent a new generation of inexpensive, mechanically flexible devices with demonstrated applicability in numerous applications in the fields of spectroscopy, optical communications and sensing requiring an organic, efficient, stable, wavelength-tunable and solution-processable laser material. A distributed feedback (DFB) laser is a particularly attractive TFOL because it shows single mode emission, low pump energy, easy integration with other devices, mechanical flexibility and potentially low production cost. Here, amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) and DFB laser applications of novel high performing perylene dyes and p-phenylenevinylene (PV) oligomers, both dispersed in thermoplastic polymers, used as passive matrixes, are reported. Second-order DFB lasers based on these materials show single mode emission, wavelength tunability across the visible spectrum, operational lifetimes of >10⁵ pump pulses, larger than previously reported PV oligomers or polymers, and thresholds close to pumping requirements with light-emitting diodes.

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María A. Díaz-García, Marta Morales-Vidal, Manuel G. Ramírez, José M. Villalvilla, Pedro G. Boj, José A. Quintana, A. Retolaza, and S. Merino "Solution-processable, photo-stable, low-threshold, and broadly tunable thin film organic lasers based on novel high-performing laser dyes", Proc. SPIE 9566, Organic Light Emitting Materials and Devices XIX, 95660Q (22 September 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2187015

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