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Opt Lett. 2005 Feb 01;30(3):260-2. doi: 10.1364/ol.30.000260.

Emission properties of printed organic semiconductor lasers.

Optics letters

Dario Pisignano, Luana Persano, Elisa Mele, Paolo Visconti, Roberto Cingolani, Giuseppe Gigli, Giovanna Barbarella, Laura Favaretto

Affiliations

  1. National Nanotechnology Laboratory of the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica della Materia, c/o Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Innovazione, Università di Lecce, via Arnesano, 1-73100 Lecce, Italy. [email protected]

PMID: 15751878 DOI: 10.1364/ol.30.000260

Abstract

We investigated the emission properties of a distributed-feedback resonator based on an organic semiconductor patterned by a novel printing technology. We observed the peak splitting of the photonic bandstructure of the periodic grating and extracted the effective refractive index of the outcoupled guided modes. The laser works at the second diffraction order, exhibiting narrow single-mode emission at 637 nm, with a threshold as low as 37 microJ/cm2. The results suggest that direct printing is a promising fabrication technique for optically confined integrated optoelectronics.

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