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High brightness diode-pumped organic solid-state laser

Year: 2015

Type: article

Abstract: High-power, diffraction-limited organic solid-state laser operation has been achieved in a vertical external cavity surface-emitting organic laser (VECSOL), pumped by a low-cost compact blue laser diode. The diode-pumped VECSOLs were demonstrated with various dyes in a polymer matrix, leading to laser emissions from 540 nm to 660 nm. Optimization of both the pump pulse duration and output coupling leads to a pump slope efficiency of 11% for a DCM based VECSOLs. We report output pulse energy up to 280 nJ with 100 ns long pump pulses, leading to a peak power of 3.5 W in a circularly symmetric, diffraction-limited beam.

Source: Applied Physics Letters

DOI: 10.1063/1.4907318

Authors: Zhuang Zhao, Oussama Mhibik, Malik Nafa, Sébastien Chénais, Sébastien Forget

Institutions: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Laboratoire de physique des lasers

Language: English

Topic: Solid State Laser Technologies

Subfield: Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Field: Engineering

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funder: Agence Nationale de la Recherche

Award: Low-cost disposable organic laser