High performance thin film organic lasers for sensing applications

Marta Morales-Vidal

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V52 - N3 / 2019 Ordinario

Reference

51023: 1-9

DOI

http://doi.org/10.7149/OPA.52.3.51023

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English

Keywords

Distributed feedback, polymeric resonator, photostability, label-free sensors, ErbB2 biomarker.

Abstract

This paper summarizes the most important results of the PhD Thesis presented by M. M-V. and directed by M.A. Díaz-García. Thin film organic lasers have demonstrated its applicability at laboratory scale, spectroscopy, optical communications, chemical sensing or biosensing. To bring optically-pumped solution processed thin film organic lasers to the real market the active material must be: able to emit at low pump excitation (low threshold), photostable to ensure a long operational lifetime; capable of emitting at various wavelengths or colours, processable by low-cost solution-based methods and mechanically flexible. We show all these properties amalgamated in a novel organic active materials: carbon-bridged oligo(p-phenylenevinylene)s (COPVn) dispersed in thermoplastic polymer films and a COPV-polymer prepared as a neat film. Novel devices by using different architectures have been optimized and studied. The high performance achieved with these laser devices has been demonstrated by pumping them with an inexpensive laser diode. The sensing applicability of thin film organic lasers has been also demonstrated by preparing and characterizing bulk refractive index sensors and biosensors.

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