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Optimization of Cavity Length to Obtain Low Threshold Solid-state Dye Laser

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 July 2011

Lan-Ting Shi
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Organic NanoPhotonics and Key Laboratory of Functional Crystals and Laser Technology, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhongguancunbeiyitiao No. 2, Beijing, 100190, People’s Republic of China
Feng Jin
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Organic NanoPhotonics and Key Laboratory of Functional Crystals and Laser Technology, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhongguancunbeiyitiao No. 2, Beijing, 100190, People’s Republic of China
Mei-Ling Zheng
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Organic NanoPhotonics and Key Laboratory of Functional Crystals and Laser Technology, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhongguancunbeiyitiao No. 2, Beijing, 100190, People’s Republic of China
Xian-Zi Dong
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Organic NanoPhotonics and Key Laboratory of Functional Crystals and Laser Technology, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhongguancunbeiyitiao No. 2, Beijing, 100190, People’s Republic of China
Wei-Qiang Chen
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Organic NanoPhotonics and Key Laboratory of Functional Crystals and Laser Technology, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhongguancunbeiyitiao No. 2, Beijing, 100190, People’s Republic of China
Zhen-Sheng Zhao
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Organic NanoPhotonics and Key Laboratory of Functional Crystals and Laser Technology, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhongguancunbeiyitiao No. 2, Beijing, 100190, People’s Republic of China
Xuan-Ming Duan*
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Organic NanoPhotonics and Key Laboratory of Functional Crystals and Laser Technology, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhongguancunbeiyitiao No. 2, Beijing, 100190, People’s Republic of China
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Abstract

We have demonstrated and studied polymeric solid-state dye lasers (SSDLs) fabricated by three-dimensional (3D) polystyrene colloidal crystals and tert-butyl roadamine B (t-Bu RhB) doped Poly (methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) films with different film thickness. The sandwich-typed resonator cavities with different active layer thickness display single-mode lasing oscillations in the reflection bandgap of the colloidal crystals. The lasing thresholds could be optimized by changing the thickness of t-Bu RhB doped PMMA films, which is as low as 7.43 W/cm2. Adjusting active layer thickness would provide an opportunity to accelerate the development of fabricating polymeric SSDLs with low threshold.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2011

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