The excellent luminescence and gain properties of substituted oligothiophenes are exploited to imprint one-dimensional photonic crystals for the fabrication of printed distributed feedback (DFB) cavities. We demonstrate the dry-printing of organic semiconductor lasers, carrying out the realization of a complete device by a single nanofabrication step, which can be perfectly integrated with other existing planar semiconductor processing and etching technologies. In particular, a thiophene-based pentamer with very good amplified spontaneous emission and optical gain properties was used to fabricate a single-mode, first-order DFB lasers exhibiting an emission with a linewidth of 1.1 nm at about 636 nm for excitation fluences larger than 27 μJ/cm2. These results clearly indicate that substituted oligothiophene-S,S- dioxides are promising candidates for solid-state lasers realizable by emerging nanopatteming technologies.

First order imprinted organic distributed feedback laser

PISIGNANO, Dario;VISCONTI, Paolo;ANNI, Marco;GIGLI, Giuseppe;CINGOLANI, Roberto;
2005-01-01

Abstract

The excellent luminescence and gain properties of substituted oligothiophenes are exploited to imprint one-dimensional photonic crystals for the fabrication of printed distributed feedback (DFB) cavities. We demonstrate the dry-printing of organic semiconductor lasers, carrying out the realization of a complete device by a single nanofabrication step, which can be perfectly integrated with other existing planar semiconductor processing and etching technologies. In particular, a thiophene-based pentamer with very good amplified spontaneous emission and optical gain properties was used to fabricate a single-mode, first-order DFB lasers exhibiting an emission with a linewidth of 1.1 nm at about 636 nm for excitation fluences larger than 27 μJ/cm2. These results clearly indicate that substituted oligothiophene-S,S- dioxides are promising candidates for solid-state lasers realizable by emerging nanopatteming technologies.
File in questo prodotto:
Non ci sono file associati a questo prodotto.

I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.

Utilizza questo identificativo per citare o creare un link a questo documento: https://hdl.handle.net/11587/109138
 Attenzione

Attenzione! I dati visualizzati non sono stati sottoposti a validazione da parte dell'ateneo

Citazioni
  • ???jsp.display-item.citation.pmc??? ND
  • Scopus 19
  • ???jsp.display-item.citation.isi??? 19
social impact