RGB and white-emitting organic lasers on flexible glass

Foucher, C. and Guilhabert, B. and Kanibolotsky, A.L. and Skabara, P. J. and Laurand, N. and Dawson, M. D. (2016) RGB and white-emitting organic lasers on flexible glass. Optics Express, 24 (3). pp. 2273-2280. ISSN 1094-4087 (https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.24.002273)

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Abstract

Two formats of multiwavelength red, green and blue (RGB) laser on mechanically-flexible glass are demonstrated. In both cases, three all-organic, vertically-emitting distributed feedback (DFB) lasers are assembled onto a common ultra-thin glass membrane substrate and fully encapsulated by a thin polymer overlayer and an additional 50µm-thick glass membrane in order to improve the performance. The first device format has the three DFB lasers sitting next to each other on the glass substrate. The DFB lasers are simultaneously excited by a single overlapping optical pump, emitting spatially separated red, green and blue laser output with individual thresholds of, respectively, 28 µJ/cm2, 11 µJ/cm2 and 32 µJ/cm2 (for 5 ns pump pulses). The second device format has the three DFB lasers, respectively the red, green and blue laser, vertically stacked onto the flexible glass. This device format emits a white laser output for an optical pump fluence above 42 µJ/cm2.

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Foucher, C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3229-7502, Guilhabert, B. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3986-8566, Kanibolotsky, A.L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3991-6297, Skabara, P. J., Laurand, N. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0486-4300 and Dawson, M. D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6639-2989;
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