Low threshold simultaneous multi-wavelength
amplified spontaneous emission modulated by
the lithium fluoride/Ag layers
Mengjie Wei,
1,2
Tao Xu,
3,4
Yulai Gao,
1
Guo Chen,
2
and Bin Wei
2,5
1
School of Material Science and Engineering, Shanghai University, 149 Yanchang Road, Shanghai, 200072, China
2
Key Laboratory of Advanced Display and System Applications, Ministry of Education, Shanghai University, 149
Yanchang Road, Shanghai, 200072, China
3
Sino-European School of Technology, Shanghai University, 99 Shangda Road, Shanghai, 200444, China
4
xtld@shu.edu.cn
5
bwei@shu.edu.cn
Abstract: This paper describes a multi-wavelength amplified spontaneous
emission (ASE) with multilayer stacked active planar waveguides. A
modulating layer of Ag is applied to make a good confinement of ASE in
one active layer, while a lithium fluoride layer is inserted between the active
layer and the modulating layer to avoid fluorescence quenching and confine
the pump energy in one waveguide. Under optical pumping, ASE at 503
and 662 nm corresponding to the respective active layer are simultaneously
observed, with extremely low thresholds at ~37.2 and ~39.7 KW/cm
2
.
©2015 Optical Society of America
OCIS codes: (140.2050) Dye lasers; (310.2785) Guided wave applications; (310.4165)
Multilayer design; (310.6845) Thin film devices and applications.
References and links
1. F. Hide, M. A. Diaz-Garcia, B. J. Schwartz, M. R. Andersson, Q. Pei, and A. J. Heeger, “Semiconducting
polymers: a new class of solid-state laser materials,” Science 273(5283), 1833–1836 (1996).
2. V. Kozlov, V. Bulović, P. Burrows, and S. Forrest, “Laser action in organic semiconductor waveguide and
double-heterostructure devices,” Nature 389(6649), 362–364 (1997).
3. D. Schneider, U. Lemmer, W. Kowalsky, and T. Riedl, Organic Light Emitting Devices: Synthesis, Properties
and Applications (Wiley, 2006), Chap 12.
4. K. Yamashita, M. Arimatsu, M. Takayama, K. Oe, and H. Yanagi, “Simple fabrication technique of distributed-
feedback polymer laser by direct photonanoimprint lithography,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 92(24), 243306 (2008).
5. K. Yamashita, A. Arimatsu, N. Takeuchi, M. Takayama, K. Oe, and H. Yanagi, “Multilayered solid-state organic
laser for simultaneous multiwavelength oscillations,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 93(23), 233303 (2008).
6. K. Yamashita, N. Takeuchi, K. Oe, and H. Yanagi, “Simultaneous RGB lasing from a single-chip polymer
device,” Opt. Lett. 35(14), 2451–2453 (2010).
7. M. Wei, R. Huang, K. Guo, Y. Jing, T. Xu, and B. Wei, “Carrier transportation, photoluminescence and lasing
characteristics of 1, 4-bis [2-[4-[N, N-di (p-tolyl) amino] phenyl] vinyl] benzene: implications for diode-pum
ped
organic solid-state lasers,” J. Mater. Chem. C Mater. Opt. Electron. Devices 2(38), 8131–8136 (2014).
8. Q. Kou, I. Yesilyurt, and Y. Chen, “Collinear dual-color laser emission from a microfluidic dye laser,” Appl.
Phys. Lett. 88(9), 091101 (2006).
9. Y. Oki, M. Tanaka, Y. Ogawa, H. Watanabe, and M. Maeda, “Development of quasi-end-fired waveguide plastic
dye laser,” IEEE J. Quantum Electron. 42(4), 389–396 (2006).
10. S. Balslev and A. Kristensen, “Microfluidic single-mode laser using high-order Bragg grating and antiguiding
segments,” Opt. Express 13(1), 344–351 (2005).
11. Z. Li, Z. Zhang, A. Scherer, and D. Psaltis, “Optofluidic microring dye laser,” in 2007 Digest of the IEEE/LEOS
Summer Topical Meetings (IEEE, 2007), pp. 70–71.
12. Y. Sun, J. D. Suter, and X. Fan, “Robust integrated optofluidic-ring-resonator dye lasers,” Opt. Lett. 34(7),
1042–1044 (2009).
13. M. Kuwata, H. Sugiura, T. Sasagawa, A. Michimori, E. Toide, T. Yanagisawa, S. Yamamoto, Y. Hirano, M.
Usui, S. Teramatsu, and J. Someya, “A 65-in. slim (255-mm depth) laser TV with wide-angle projection optical
system,” J. Soc. Inf. Disp. 17(11), 875–882 (2009).
14. X. Gong, S. Wang, D. Moses, G. C. Bazan, and A. J. Heeger, “Multilayer polymer light-emitting diodes: white-
light emission with high efficiency,” Adv. Mater. 17(17), 2053–2058 (2005).
Received 1 Jun 2015; revised 5 Jul 2015; accepted 8 Jul 2015; published 13 Jul 2015
27 Jul 2015 | Vol. 23, No. 15 | DOI:10.1364/OE.23.018832 | OPTICS EXPRESS 18832