Diode-Pumped Organic Semiconductor Microcone Laser

Author

Klinkhammer, Sönke ; Grossmann, Tobias ; Lüll, Karl ; Hauser, Mario ; Vannahme, Christoph ; Mappes, Timo ; Kalt, Heinz ; Lemmer, Uli

Author_Institution

Light Technol. Inst. (LTI), Karlsruhe Inst. for Technol. (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany

Volume

23

Issue

8

fYear

2011

fDate

4/15/2011 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

489

Lastpage

491

Abstract

We report laser action from conical polymeric microcavities. A thin film of the organic semiconductor tris(8-hydroxyquinoline) aluminum (Alq₃) doped with the laser dye 4-dicyanmethylene-2-methyl-6-(p-dimethylaminostyryl)-4H-pyran (DCM) on top of the microcones enables low-threshold lasing when pumped with a conventional blu-ray laser diode. This combination might pave the way towards compact, low-cost integrated laser-based sensing systems.

Keywords

dye lasers; dyes; laser cavity resonators; microcavities; microcavity lasers; optical pumping; organic semiconductors; semiconductor lasers; 4-dicyanmethylene-2-methyl-6-(p-dimethylaminostyryl)-4H-pyran; blu-ray laser diode; conical polymeric microcavities; diode-pumped laser; integrated laser-based sensing systems; laser dye; microcone organic semiconductor laser; optical pumping; tris(8-hydroxyquinoline) aluminum; Diode lasers; Laser excitation; Laser modes; Materials; Microcavities; Pump lasers; Semiconductor lasers; $hbox{Alq}_{3}colon$DCM; microcone; organic semiconductor laser; whispering gallery mode (WGM);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2011.2111417

Filename

5708166