EP1044488A1 - Laser mit einem organischen emittermaterial und verteilter rückkopplung - Google Patents
Laser mit einem organischen emittermaterial und verteilter rückkopplungInfo
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- EP1044488A1 EP1044488A1 EP98966858A EP98966858A EP1044488A1 EP 1044488 A1 EP1044488 A1 EP 1044488A1 EP 98966858 A EP98966858 A EP 98966858A EP 98966858 A EP98966858 A EP 98966858A EP 1044488 A1 EP1044488 A1 EP 1044488A1
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
- H01S—DEVICES USING THE PROCESS OF LIGHT AMPLIFICATION BY STIMULATED EMISSION OF RADIATION [LASER] TO AMPLIFY OR GENERATE LIGHT; DEVICES USING STIMULATED EMISSION OF ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION IN WAVE RANGES OTHER THAN OPTICAL
- H01S3/00—Lasers, i.e. devices using stimulated emission of electromagnetic radiation in the infrared, visible or ultraviolet wave range
- H01S3/05—Construction or shape of optical resonators; Accommodation of active medium therein; Shape of active medium
- H01S3/06—Construction or shape of active medium
- H01S3/063—Waveguide lasers, i.e. whereby the dimensions of the waveguide are of the order of the light wavelength
- H01S3/0632—Thin film lasers in which light propagates in the plane of the thin film
- H01S3/0635—Thin film lasers in which light propagates in the plane of the thin film provided with a periodic structure, e.g. using distributed feed-back, grating couplers
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
- H01S—DEVICES USING THE PROCESS OF LIGHT AMPLIFICATION BY STIMULATED EMISSION OF RADIATION [LASER] TO AMPLIFY OR GENERATE LIGHT; DEVICES USING STIMULATED EMISSION OF ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION IN WAVE RANGES OTHER THAN OPTICAL
- H01S3/00—Lasers, i.e. devices using stimulated emission of electromagnetic radiation in the infrared, visible or ultraviolet wave range
- H01S3/14—Lasers, i.e. devices using stimulated emission of electromagnetic radiation in the infrared, visible or ultraviolet wave range characterised by the material used as the active medium
- H01S3/16—Solid materials
- H01S3/168—Solid materials using an organic dye dispersed in a solid matrix
Definitions
- the invention relates to a laser made of an organic emitter material and distributed feedback.
- conjugated polymer layers are capable of stimulated emission.
- lasers are known in which the laser material is not an organic material, which generate a large-area laser beam by means of distributed feedback.
- the invention is based on the knowledge that lasers with an organic emitter material are particularly suitable for the production of lasers with distributed feedback, since the organic material can be easily produced over a large area and in any shape.
- the invention has for its object to provide a laser with an organic emitter material and distributed feedback, which is simple, and which can be excited in a variety of ways.
- the laser consists of at least one organic emitter material capable of stimulated light emission, which is flat, and means for optical, electrical and / or chemical pumping of the emitter material, in which waveguide modes exist in the emitter material, and the laser structure is periodically spatially modulated.
- the invention is based on the following basic idea:
- An organic material capable of stimulating light emission (hereinafter also referred to as emitter material) is preferably arranged as a thin film on a substrate within a multilayer system, since then the waveguide in the emitter layer can be easily achieved by dielectric layers with a suitable refractive index and / or adjacent to the emitter layer. or can be achieved through metallic films.
- boundary layers The layers or multilayer systems adjoining the emitter material are referred to below as boundary layers.
- both surfaces of the emitter material are in contact with boundary layers.
- a boundary layer can be a substrate on which the active layer is applied.
- the thin layer can be applied in the manner customary in plastics technology, "spinning", coating, knife coating or vapor deposition should only be mentioned by way of example.
- the emitter material can consist of one or more conjugated polymers, as are described in particular in the prior art mentioned in the introduction.
- emitter materials which consist of one or more liquid layers which form the laserable organic material or in which the laserable material is embedded.
- the emitter material can consist of one or more liquid crystal layers in which the laserable organic material is embedded.
- Such a layer has the advantage that the emitting states can be aligned.
- the polarization of the emitted light can thus be controlled. This is particularly advantageous since the distributed feedback is strongly polarization-dependent.
- the substrate and the upper boundary surface or the upper boundary layer are preferably designed such that there are waveguide modes guided in the emitter material which transport light in the film plane. This can include can be achieved by the following options:
- Dielectric film on the emitter film (eg made of plastic) with a refractive index that is less than the refractive index of the polymer at the desired laser emission wavelength.
- the film can also serve as protection against degradation of the polymer layer.
- the substrate and / or the film and / or the upper interface of the film are periodically modulated, so that the waveguide is carried out by Bragg scattering.
- the periodic modulation with a suitable choice of the modulation period, feeds the light back in such a way that laser light (with the desired wavelength) is produced within the arrangement.
- the laser light is coupled through the top or bottom or laterally for use.
- At least one boundary layer has a multilayer structure and / or the emitter material has a multilayer structure.
- the periodic modulation of the laser structure can be achieved in that the boundary layer and / or the emitter material is periodically spatially modulated.
- the modulation can extend in the direction of the surface area of the emitter material.
- the emitter material can be periodically modulated in the refractive index or in the local amplification.
- the feedback takes place by diffraction in the periodically modulated emitter material:
- the periodic spatial modulation is based on a spatial modulation of the real part of the refractive index and / or of the net gain of the emitter material, ie the Strengthening formed by stimulated emission minus residual absorption-determining imaginary part of the refractive index.
- the spatial variation of the refractive index can be formed by a height variation of the emitter material and / or at least one boundary layer perpendicular to the surface extension of the emitter material. Furthermore, it is possible for the real part of the refractive index to vary spatially in at least one boundary layer and / or in the emitter material. It is also possible to suitably change the material properties using holographic methods.
- At least one boundary layer and / or the emitter material has a spatial structuring.
- the birefringence in at least one layer of the emitter material can also vary locally.
- a spatial variation in the pump energy introduced can produce the local variation in the net gain.
- a spatial variation in the thickness of the emitter material can produce the local variation in net gain or a variation in a property of the emitter material can produce local variation in net gain.
- the periodic modulation of the structure can furthermore be achieved very simply by height modulation of the substrate to which the emitter layer is then applied.
- a corresponding structure has been developed by the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft / ISE. This enables the production of flexible laser components.
- the feedback then takes place by diffraction at least at the interface between the substrate and the emitter material.
- the active emitter layer which emits laser light, can also be separated from the periodically structured layer, so that the structured parts of the sample act as a reflector for the light emitted in the active zone.
- the volume density of the excited emitter molecules can vary the volume density of the excited emitter molecules, the volume density of the local orientation of the emitter molecules in the active layer and / or the non-radiative recombination centers of the acceptor molecules, or the residual absorption.
- the transport properties of the active layer, the contact layers or the feed layers can be spatially modulated. Another possibility is to use structured electrical contacts and / or to bend the contacts.
- the emitter material can be pumped in a variety of ways:
- External optical pumping of the emitter material over the upper or lower interface e.g. via an inorganic light-emitting or laser diode integrated in a hybrid component.
- Electric pumping of the emitter material through metal electrodes or transparent electrodes, such as electrodes made of ITO on the top and / or bottom.
- Electrical pumping in which the electrical transport into the emitter layer takes place through thin electron and / or hole transport layers.
- the transport layers can have the function of the optically thinner boundary layer of the waveguide.
- the laser according to the invention can emit light in the green and blue spectral range.
- a multilayer structure of the emitter material allows quasi-white laser light to be obtained.
- the laser sources according to the invention can be widely used, inter alia, in mass articles such as CD players, data memories, scanners and in lighting technology. Due to the small wavelength, e.g. high storage densities or resolutions achieved in data storage. The directional radiation could also find its way into other areas that were previously reserved for red laser diodes, such as Laserpointem.
- a special feature of organic materials is that they can be applied over a large area. This enables the creation of laser components that can emit spectrally narrow and coherent radiation over a large area in a narrow directional range.
- FIG. 1 shows the basic structure of a first embodiment in which is pumped optically
- Fig. 2 shows the emission intensity as a function of the wavelength as a function of the pump energy Ep
- Fig. 3 shows the output power as a function of the pump energy E p
- Fig. 4 shows the basic structure of a second embodiment in which is electrically pumped.
- Figure 1 shows the basic structure of a first embodiment of a laser according to the invention.
- the thickness of the film 1 is approximately 300 nm.
- the plastic substrate 2 with a periodic height modulation acts as a Bragg reflector, which causes a spatially distributed feedback for the induced emission.
- the film is optically pumped with a repetition rate of 1 kHz and a pulse duration of 100 fs with light of the wavelength 400 nm.
- FIG. 2 shows in FIGS. A to c the emission intensity for the exemplary embodiment shown in FIG. 1 as a function of the wavelength as a function of the pump energy E p at room temperature.
- pulse energies of the pump laser of more than approx. 1.5 nJ, a threshold behavior is evident: From this pulse energy, a narrow laser line appears with a line width of approximately one nm.
- FIG. 3 shows the output power as a function of the pump energy Ep.
- the behavior is approximately linear below the aforementioned threshold value, and a steep increase follows above the threshold value.
- Fig. 4 shows a second embodiment in which there is electrical pumping.
- a thin layer 3 of aluminum is applied to the substrate 2, onto which a polymer 4 with hole transport properties is applied.
- the film 1 made of laser-compatible organic material, which in turn can be, for example, poly (p-phenyl) polymer of the so-called ladder (conductor) type.
- a polymer 5 with electron transport properties is applied to the film 1, onto which a translucent metal layer 6, which consists for example of ITO, is applied.
- a translucent metal layer 6, which consists for example of ITO is applied.
- the layer 6 can also have a lattice or network structure, so that the laser light is coupled out through the “holes” in the structure.
- the refractive index of film 1 is greater than that of polymer 4 and polymer 5, so that waveguiding results.
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DE19805993A DE19805993A1 (de) | 1997-12-31 | 1998-02-15 | Laser mit einem organischen Emittermaterial und verteilter Rückkoppelung |
DE19805993 | 1998-02-15 | ||
PCT/EP1998/008514 WO1999035721A1 (de) | 1997-12-31 | 1998-12-31 | Laser mit einem organischen emittermaterial und verteilter rückkopplung |
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