Flexible distributed feedback lasers based on nanoimprinted cellulose diacetate with efficient multiple wavelength lasing

Autor: José R. Castro Smirnov, Ahmad Sousaraei, Manuel R. Osorio, Santiago Casado, Jaime J. Hernández, Longfei Wu, Qi Zhang, Ruidong Xia, Daniel Granados, Reinhold Wannemacher, Isabel Rodriguez, Juan Cabanillas-Gonzalez
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: npj Flexible Electronics, Vol 3, Iss 1, Pp 1-7 (2019)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2397-4621
DOI: 10.1038/s41528-019-0062-4
Popis: Multi-colored polymer lasers Highly luminescent polymers can work as lasers when incorporated with suitable cavities and now the nano-imprinting makes the fabrication much cheaper and more scalable. An international team led by Prof Juan Cabanillas-Gonzalez from Madrid Institute for Advanced Studies in Nanoscience, Spain demonstrates transparent all-polymer distributed feedback (DFB) lasers in blue, green, yellow and red. The most important step is to make sub-wavelength periodic gratings on the flexible and highly transparent cellulose diacetate substrates by thermal nano-imprinting with high fidelity to maximize the constructive interference effect. As a result, these lasers show narrow linewidths below 1 nm at low power thresholds of several μJ cm^−2, which is comparable to conventional approaches. This large area nano-imprinting method is scalable and adaptable and it enables stackable multi-colored laser emission.
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