Low threshold photonic crystal lasing from a dye with high emission quantum yield and weak self-quenching

Feng, Jing; Bian, Sha; Long, Yue; Yuan, Hao; Liao, Qing; Cai, Huaqiang; Huang, Hui; Song, Kai; Yang, Guoqiang

doi:10.1039/c3tc30730a

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“…Nonetheless, most of these inorganic semiconductor nanowires have been fabricated through the “top‐down” method, which requires numerous fabrication steps as well as subsequent patterning techniques . For organic materials, the “bottom‐up” fabricated organic SSLs have been reported, such as the self‐assembled Fabry–Pérot (FP) nanowire lasers, the self‐assembled photonic organic crystals lasers, and the self‐assembled whispering‐gallery‐mode microcrystal lasers . The photonic crystal lasers are famous for the ultralow threshold, but the difficulty in the fabrication of the photonic crystals will hinder the further development .…”

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“…For organic materials, the “bottom‐up” fabricated organic SSLs have been reported, such as the self‐assembled Fabry–Pérot (FP) nanowire lasers, the self‐assembled photonic organic crystals lasers, and the self‐assembled whispering‐gallery‐mode microcrystal lasers . The photonic crystal lasers are famous for the ultralow threshold, but the difficulty in the fabrication of the photonic crystals will hinder the further development . And the self‐assembled organic micro/nanocrystals can simultaneously function as the active materials and the resonant cavity for the laser action .…”

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Tunable Near‐Infrared Organic Nanowire Nanolasers

Wang

Zhuo

et al. 2017

Adv Funct Materials

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Organic semiconductor nanowires have inherent advantages, such as amenability to low-cost, low-temperature processing, and inherent four-level energy systems, which will significantly contribute to the organic solid-state lasers (OSSLs) and miniaturized laser devices. However, the realization of nearinfrared (NIR) organic nanowire lasers is always a big challenge due to the difficultly in fabrication of organic nanowires with diameters of ≈100 nm and material issues such as low photoluminescence quantum efficiency in the red-NIR region. What is more, the achievement of wavelength-tunable OSSLs has also encountered enormous challenge. This study first demonstrates the 720 nm NIR lasing with a low lasing threshold of ≈1.4 µJ cm −2 from the organic single-crystalline nanowires, which are self-assembled from small organic molecules of (E)-3-(4-(dimethylamino)-2-methoxyphenyl)-1-(1-hydroxynaphthalen-2-yl)prop-2-en-1-one through a facile solution-phase growth method. Notably, these individual nanowires' Fabry-Pérot cavity can alternatively provide the red-NIR lasing action at 660 or 720 nm from the 0-1 or 0-2 radiative transition channels, and the single (660 or 720 nm)/dual-wavelength (660 and 720 nm) laser action can be achieved by modulating the length of these organic nanowires due to the intrinsic self-absorption. These easilyfabricated organic nanowires are natural laser sources, which offer considerable promise for coherent light devices integrated on the optics microchip.

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confidence: 99%

Tunable Near‐Infrared Organic Nanowire Nanolasers

Wang

Zhuo

et al. 2017

Adv Funct Materials

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“…[22][23][24][25][26][27] Despite the fact that much effort has been devoted to optimizing the resonating cavity, [28][29][30] few work has been directed towards improving the gain media in CC lasers. 31 Gain media are of great importance in performing low threshold lasing oscillation. Many types of gain media, which exhibit high laser efficiency and good performance, have been reported over the past few decades.…”

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Low threshold photonic crystal laser based on a Rhodamine dye doped high gain polymer

Shi

Jin

Zheng

et al. 2016

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys.

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We demonstrate low threshold lasing oscillation in a photonic crystal (PhC) laser by using tert-butyl Rhodamine B (t-Bu-RhB) doped gain media. Lactonic t-Bu-RhB is synthesized to improve doping concentration in polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) films, and then isomerized to the zwitterion form to achieve highly fluorescent gain medium. The t-Bu-RhB doped PMMA film is sandwiched by a pair of polystyrene colloidal crystals to construct a PhC resonating cavity. Single-mode laser oscillation at 592 nm is observed when the PhC resonating cavity is pumped by a Nd:YAG laser. The lasing threshold is 0.12 MW cm(-2) utilizing 6.9 wt% t-Bu-RhB doped PMMA films, which is only 1/60 of that with 3 wt% t-Bu-RhB doped PMMA films. The concentration-dependent lasing action is attributed to different gain factors of the t-Bu-RhB doped PMMA films. Furthermore, a spatially and spectrally coherent laser beam from the PhC resonating cavity is verified by exploring the far-field image and angular dependence of the lasing emission. The approach provides a facile and efficient strategy to reduce the lasing threshold for fabricating low threshold PhC lasers.

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“…By mimicking nature, photonic crystals have been extensively investigated for applications such as sensors, displays and optical analysis. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11] Despite many approaches like selfassembly, [12][13][14][15] inkjet printing, 16 spin-coating 7,17,18 and lithography 14,19 being proposed to develop articial periodic features, holography is regarded as the most promising technique for fabricating mass-productive, large area and defect-free photonic crystals. 19 Newly developed photopolymerization systems will further extend the capability of holography to form a 3D complex photonic structure temporally and spatially.…”

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Highly diffractive, reversibly fast responsive gratings formulated through holography

Peng

et al. 2014

RSC Adv.

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Versatile and reversibly rapid responsive one-dimensional photonic crystals with a diffraction efficiency of 97%, which consisted of uniformly 273 AE 48 nm wide liquid crystal belts within transmission holographic polymer dispersed liquid crystal (HPDLC) gratings, were formulated by a facile single step holography based on a hyperbranched monomer. The effect of the monomer average functionality on the photopolymerization kinetics and the electro-optical performances as well as the grating morphologies was investigated. The results show that the low intrinsic viscosity of the hyperbranched monomer accounts for a well-structured morphology in terms of providing a prolonged gelation time for the liquid crystals to diffuse from the light illumination region during the holographic polymerization induced phase separation. Another intriguing observation is that with an increase in the hyperbranched monomer loading, the diffraction efficiency of the HPDLC gratings gradually increases from zero to an average of 94% and then levels off. This is quite different from previous results that gave less than a 50% diffraction efficiency when the monomer average functionality was larger than 4.

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Low threshold photonic crystal lasing from a dye with high emission quantum yield and weak self-quenching

Cited by 7 publications

References 45 publications

Tunable Near‐Infrared Organic Nanowire Nanolasers

Tunable Near‐Infrared Organic Nanowire Nanolasers

Low threshold photonic crystal laser based on a Rhodamine dye doped high gain polymer

Highly diffractive, reversibly fast responsive gratings formulated through holography

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