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Appl Opt. 2005 Aug 10;44(23):4965-71. doi: 10.1364/ao.44.004965.

Microfabricated solid-state dye lasers based on a photodefinable polymer.

Applied optics

Daniel Nilsson, Søren Balslev, Misha M Gregersen, Anders Kristensen

Affiliations

  1. MIC--Department of Micro and Nanotechnology, Technical University of Denmark, Building 345, East Orsteds Plads, DK-2800 Kongens Lyngby, Denmark.

PMID: 16114536 DOI: 10.1364/ao.44.004965

Abstract

We present a solid polymer dye laser based on a single-mode planar waveguide. The all-polymer device is self-contained in the photodefinable polymer SU-8 and may therefore easily be placed on any substrate and be integrated with polymer-based systems. We use as the active medium for the laser the commercially available laser dye Rhodamine 6G, which is incorporated into the SU-8 polymer matrix. The single-mode slab waveguide is formed by three-step spin-coating deposition: a buffer layer of undoped SU-8, a core layer of SU-8 doped with Rhodamine, and a cladding layer of undoped SU-8.

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