Ultralow-threshold up-converted lasing in oligofluorenes with tailored strong nonlinear absorption

Autor: Martin D. Dawson, Nicolas Laurand, Clara Orofino-Pena, Alexander L. Kanibolotsky, Burak Guzelturk, Peter J. Skabara, Hilmi Volkan Demir
Přispěvatelé: Demir, Hilmi Volkan
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2015
Předmět:
Nonlinear absorptions
Amplified spontaneous emission
Materials science
Nonlinear optics
Nonlinear optical response
02 engineering and technology
Optical gain
Fluorene
Conjugated system
Conjugated polymers
010402 general chemistry
01 natural sciences
Photodynamic therapy
law.invention
chemistry.chemical_compound
law
Integrated applications
Non-linear optical properties
Structure property relationships
Materials Chemistry
Organic lasers
QD
Absorption (electromagnetic radiation)
chemistry.chemical_classification
Semiconductor lasers
Photons
Optical properties
business.industry
Organic polymers
Two-photon absorption cross section
General Chemistry
Polymer
Molecules
Two photon processes
021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology
Laser
Stars
0104 chemical sciences
Organic semiconductor
chemistry
Oligomers
Small organic molecules
Amplified spontaneous emissions
Optoelectronics
0210 nano-technology
business
Lasing threshold
Zdroj: Journal of Materials Chemistry C
ISSN: 2050-7526
Popis: Nonlinear optical response in organic semiconductors has been an attractive property for many practical applications. For frequency up-converted lasers, to date, conjugated polymers, fluorescent dyes and small organic molecules have been proposed but their performances have been severely limited due to the difficulty in simultaneously achieving strong nonlinear optical response and high performance optical gain. In this work, we show that structurally designed truxene-based star-shaped oligofluorenes exhibit strong structure-property relationships enabling enhanced nonlinear optical response with favorable optical gain performance. As the number of fluorene repeat units in each arm is increased from 3 to 6, these molecules demonstrate a two-photon absorption cross-section as high as 2200 GM, which is comparable to that of linear conjugated polymers. Tailored truxene oligomers with six fluorene units in each arm (T6) show two-photon absorption pumped amplified spontaneous emission with a threshold as low as 2.43 mJ cm-2, which is better than that of the lowest reported threshold in organic semiconductors. Furthermore, we show a frequency up-converted laser using the newly designed and synthesized star-shaped oligomer T6 with a threshold as low as 3.1 mJ cm-2, which is more than an order of magnitude lower than that of any conjugated polymer. Thus, these oligomers with enhanced nonlinear optical properties are highly attractive for bio-integrated applications such as photodynamic therapy and in vivo bio-sensing. © The Royal Society of Chemistry 2015.
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