An Efficient and Color-Tunable Solution-Processed Organic Thin-Film Laser with a Polymeric Top-Layer Resonator

Thin film organic lasers represent attractive light sources for numerous applications. Currently, efforts are devoted to the development of low-cost high-performance and color-tunable devices, whereby both the resonator and the active layer should consist of solution-processable organic materials. H...

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Autores: Quintana, José A., Villalvilla, José M., Morales-Vidal, Marta, Boj, Pedro G., Zhu, Xiaozhang, Ruangsupapichat, Nopporn, Tsuji, Hayato, Nakamura, Eiichi, Díaz-García, María A.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Salamanca (USAL)
Repositorio:GREDOS. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Salamanca
OAI Identifier:oai:gredos.usal.es:10366/146079
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10366/146079
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:distributed feedback lasers
organic lasers
polymeric resonators
solution-processed
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Sumario:Thin film organic lasers represent attractive light sources for numerous applications. Currently, efforts are devoted to the development of low-cost high-performance and color-tunable devices, whereby both the resonator and the active layer should consist of solution-processable organic materials. Herein, solution-processed distributed-feedback lasers are reported with polymeric resonators on top of active films of perylene orange or carbon-bridged oligo(p-phenylenevinylene) dispersed in polystyrene, which combine these properties. These lasers emit in the 520–595 nm range and show low thresholds (≈1 kW cm−2) and long operational lifetimes (7 × 105 pump pulses), which are comparable to other state-of-the-art lasers that contain the same active materials but resonators made on inorganic substrates. Due to this top-layer resonator configuration, the laser slope efficiencies of the present devices are remarkably superior. A centimeter-size device emitting at different wavelengths within a broad spectral range, based on a perylene-based film of uniform thickness that contributes to preserve a low threshold, is demonstrate