Issue 24, 2023

Organic copolymer lasing from single defect microcavity fabricated using laser patterning

Abstract

Reducing the lasing threshold in optically pumped organic lasers is a necessary component of the drive to develop an organic laser diode, as this may help mitigate the losses associated with electrical contacts and charge injection. In this study we show how increasing the binaphthyl (BN) spacer content in polydioctylfluorene (PFO) decreases its amplified spontaneous emission threshold (ASE) through the suppression of intermolecular interactions. Using co-polymers with low lasing thresholds, we use a laser patterning technique to fabricate physical defects (having a diameter of ∼2.5 μm) within a vertical microcavity. Such defects create additional lateral confinement, with this approach allowing us to reduce the lasing threshold from 11 μJ cm−2 to 7 μJ cm−2 and increase cavity Q-factor from 495 (planar cavity) to 2300. The enhanced performance and the stack structure of the defect microcavity show it is a promising architecture for an electrically-pumped laser device.

Graphical abstract: Organic copolymer lasing from single defect microcavity fabricated using laser patterning

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
15 Dec 2022
Accepted
10 Mar 2023
First published
24 Mar 2023
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2023,11, 8204-8213

Organic copolymer lasing from single defect microcavity fabricated using laser patterning

P. Claronino, R. Jayaprakash, T. Jessewitsch, R. C. Kilbride, T. Thornber, A. Muravitskaya, R. D. J. Oliver, U. Scherf, J. G. Bouillard, A. M. Adawi and D. G. Lidzey, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2023, 11, 8204 DOI: 10.1039/D2TC05360H

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