Electrically tunable organic distributed feedback lasers embedding nonlinear optical molecules

Abstract

The emission of polymer distributed feedback lasers is tuned by integrating nonlinear optical organics. The nonlinearity allows reversible tuning of the amplified spontaneous emission of a conjugated polymer by 30 nm, and the lasing wavelength by 17 nm, with a lasing tunability coefficient of 0.17 nm/V. © 2012 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.