We fabricated polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) nanofibers doped with Rhodamine 6G laser dyes via an electrospinning technique, which were then excited by a pulsed laser for laser emission. The laser was observed at a low threshold of several µJ and the intensity increased with the dye concentration. A single peak with a full width at half maximum (FWHM) of 4 nm was detected for a fiber of 300 nm diameter and multi-peaks with an FWHM of 2 nm were recorded as the diameter was increased to 800 nm. However, the multi-peaks tended to saturate to one laser peak with an intensive incident laser. The lasing mode was closely related to the diameters of the PVA fibers. Simulating results indicated that the single and multiple modes were closely related to the pump wavelength. The nanofiber as a network forming a random laser is expected to be used as a waveguide in communications and the multi-modes have potential application in cryptology.

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The light-propagation ability of fiber depends mostly on fiber diameter. Fibers with a diameter below 200 nm have poor capability of exhibiting light coupling and laser radiation. Therefore, we modified nanofibers with a diameter of 150 nm by nanoparticle doping and morphological modification to enhance scattering. A finite-difference time-domain method was used to analyze the coupling of light into fibers and its possible distribution. The simulations demonstrated that single and multiple modes were highly influenced by the diameter values. The results of the study contribute to the realization of random lasers in nanofibers with extremely small diameters.

We report random lasing actions stemming from natural biological membranes doped with Rhodamine 6G (Rh6G) laser dye which were then stimulated by a pulsed laser. The membranes have concave–convex structures and are expected to form resonators for weak light scatterings. The laser emission varies with the type of membrane and is also closely related to the dye concentration and pump energy. The threshold for the laser generation obviously rises when the concentration of doped laser dye is increased. The simulation results show lasing distributions are localized, indicating that the laser modes are very sensitive to the indicant angles of pump light.

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