Low-threshold lasers based on a high-mobility semiconducting polymer
Journal
Applied Physics Letters
Date Issued
January 2006
DOI
10.1063/1.2178197
Abstract
Progress toward electrically driven conjugated polymer lasers should benefit from the identification of materials that exhibit good charge transport properties coupled with large optical gain. Here, we report a detailed study of a blue-emitting fluorene-based polymer that combines a large hole mobility with desirable stimulated emission characteristics. Laser oscillation is achieved within distributed feedback structures and leads to low threshold, tunable lasers operating in the blue spectral region. Our results establish this material as an attractive gain medium with which to try and construct a polymer laser diode