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Liu Y, Wu W, Zhang X. Self-injection-locked thin-film regenerative laser amplifier. iScience 2024; 27:109426. [PMID: 38646176 PMCID: PMC11033150 DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2024.109426] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/02/2024] [Revised: 02/09/2024] [Accepted: 03/01/2024] [Indexed: 04/23/2024] Open
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Organic lasers based on distributed feedback (DFB) microcavities have been extensively investigated. However, the application of these lasers is limited by their low output power and large beam divergence. Therefore, laser amplifiers are needed to achieve practically applicable laser intensity and controllable lasing modes for far-field applications. In this work, we report self-injection-locked laser amplifiers using the combination of a DFB microcavity and a Bragg reflector, where a high-reflection mirror acts as the Bragg reflector and its feedback supplies the external-cavity injection. The coherent coupling between the DFB microcavity and the Bragg amplifier is crucial for achieving high conversion efficiency and high-contrast transverse modes. An amplification factor larger than 20 and a single output laser spot with high contrast that has been achieved. Such an integration design of the self-injected DFB microcavity amplifier can be directly utilized in the realization of high-performance thin-film laser sources for practical applications.
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- Yue Liu
- Institute of Information Photonics Technology, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, P.R. China
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- Institute of Information Photonics Technology, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, P.R. China
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- Institute of Information Photonics Technology, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, P.R. China
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Yoshida K, Gong J, Kanibolotsky AL, Skabara PJ, Turnbull GA, Samuel IDW. Electrically driven organic laser using integrated OLED pumping. Nature 2023; 621:746-752. [PMID: 37758890 PMCID: PMC10533406 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-06488-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2023] [Accepted: 07/27/2023] [Indexed: 09/29/2023]
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Organic semiconductors are carbon-based materials that combine optoelectronic properties with simple fabrication and the scope for tuning by changing their chemical structure1-3. They have been successfully used to make organic light-emitting diodes2,4,5 (OLEDs, now widely found in mobile phone displays and televisions), solar cells1, transistors6 and sensors7. However, making electrically driven organic semiconductor lasers is very challenging8,9. It is difficult because organic semiconductors typically support only low current densities, suffer substantial absorption from injected charges and triplets, and have additional losses due to contacts10,11. In short, injecting charges into the gain medium leads to intolerable losses. Here we take an alternative approach in which charge injection and lasing are spatially separated, thereby greatly reducing losses. We achieve this by developing an integrated device structure that efficiently couples an OLED, with exceptionally high internal-light generation, with a polymer distributed feedback laser. Under the electrical driving of the integrated structure, we observe a threshold in light output versus drive current, with a narrow emission spectrum and the formation of a beam above the threshold. These observations confirm lasing. Our results provide an organic electronic device that has not been previously demonstrated, and show that indirect electrical pumping by an OLED is a very effective way of realizing an electrically driven organic semiconductor laser. This provides an approach to visible lasers that could see applications in spectroscopy, metrology and sensing.
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- Kou Yoshida
- Organic Semiconductor Centre, SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK
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- Organic Semiconductor Centre, SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK
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- WestCHEM, School of Chemistry, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
- Institute of Physical-Organic Chemistry and Coal Chemistry, Kyiv, Ukraine
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- WestCHEM, School of Chemistry, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
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- Organic Semiconductor Centre, SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK.
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- Organic Semiconductor Centre, SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK.
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Active waveguide Bragg lasers via conformal contact PDMS stamps. Sci Rep 2022; 12:22189. [PMID: 36564483 PMCID: PMC9789066 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-26218-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2022] [Accepted: 12/12/2022] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Lasing is observed in Bragg lasers formed through conformal contact of a patterned PDMS stamp with a plain active film, spincoated on glass. The thresholds, output efficiencies and spectral characteristics are compared to standard substrate patterned gratings and is discussed in relation to the coupling coefficient [Formula: see text]. The reported thresholds are highly sensitive in distributed feedback (DFB) lasers to grating duty cycles, for both PDMS-air and substrate-film lasers. Overall, laser thresholds of PDMS-air (PA) DFB lasers are found to be significantly higher than substrate-film (SF) lasers, which is attributed to an approximate three-fold reduction of optical-confinement in the grating region. Slope output efficiencies are found to be comparatively higher in PA lasers relative to SF lasers for both DFB and DBR configurations and is attributed to several competing factors. The PDMS can be removed from the surface of the active film repeatedly and conformal contact is limited mainly by the particle build up on the PDMS surface. The proposed PA system is expected to be useful in rapid laser metrology of new gain materials and in practical applications of optically pumped lasers.
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Li S, Cao Y, Dong H. Solvent polarity dependent excited state behaviors for 2‐(2‐hydroxyphenyl) benzothiazole‐5‐(9H‐carbazol‐9‐yl)phenol fluorophore: A theoretical study. J PHYS ORG CHEM 2022. [DOI: 10.1002/poc.4432] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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- Songtao Li
- Hebei Key Laboratory of Physics and Energy Technology, Department of Mathematics and Physics North China Electric Power University Baoding China
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- Hebei Key Laboratory of Physics and Energy Technology, Department of Mathematics and Physics North China Electric Power University Baoding China
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- Hebei Key Laboratory of Physics and Energy Technology, Department of Mathematics and Physics North China Electric Power University Baoding China
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Yin F, De J, Liu M, Huang H, Geng H, Yao J, Liao Q, Fu H. High-Performance Organic Laser Semiconductor Enabling Efficient Light-Emitting Transistors and Low-Threshold Microcavity Lasers. NANO LETTERS 2022; 22:5803-5809. [PMID: 35848711 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c01345] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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An organic light-emitting transistor (OLET) is a candidate device architecture for developing electrically pumped organic solid-state lasers, but it remains a critical challenge because of the lack of organic semiconductors that simultaneously possess a high solid-state emission efficiency (Φs), a high and balanced ambipolar mobility (μh,e), and a large stimulated emission cross-section. Here, we designed a molecule of 4,4'-bis(2-dibenzothiophenyl-vinyl)-biphenyl (DBTVB) and prepared its ultrathin single-crystal microplates with herringbone packing arrangements, which achieve balanced mobilities of μh = 3.55 ± 0.5 and μe = 2.37 ± 0.5 cm2 V-1 s-1, a high Φs of 85 ± 3%, and striking low-threshold laser characteristics. Theoretical and experimental investigations reveal that a strong electronic coupling and a small reorganization energy ensure efficient charge transport; meanwhile, the exciton-vibration effect and negligible π-π orbital overlap give rise to highly emissive H-aggregates and facilitate laser emission. Furthermore, OLET-based DBTVB crystals offer an internal quantum efficiency approaching 100% and a record-high electroluminescence external quantum efficiency of 4.03%.
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- Fan Yin
- School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, P.R. China
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- School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, P.R. China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory for Optical Materials and Photonic Devices Department of Chemistry, Capital Normal University & Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Imaging Theory and Technology, Beijing 100048, P. R. China
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- School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, P.R. China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory for Optical Materials and Photonic Devices Department of Chemistry, Capital Normal University & Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Imaging Theory and Technology, Beijing 100048, P. R. China
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- School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, P.R. China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory for Optical Materials and Photonic Devices Department of Chemistry, Capital Normal University & Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Imaging Theory and Technology, Beijing 100048, P. R. China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory for Optical Materials and Photonic Devices Department of Chemistry, Capital Normal University & Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Imaging Theory and Technology, Beijing 100048, P. R. China
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Zu G, Li S, He J, Zhang H, Fu H. Amplified Spontaneous Emission from Organic Phosphorescence Emitters. J Phys Chem Lett 2022; 13:5461-5467. [PMID: 35686987 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c01379] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Organic gain materials (OGMs) currently used in organic lasers and optical amplifiers are focused on singlet-fluorescence materials, while triplet-phosphorescence-based OGMs have hardly been developed yet. Herein, we report a novel pure organic phosphorescence gain molecule (SBP) for optical amplification by stimulated emission from triplet states. The introduction of the benzophenone carbonyl group and sulfur atoms increases the spin orbit coupling constant of SBP, which accelerates the intersystem crossing (ISC) and phosphorescence processes. Experimental and theoretical results verify that the formation of the H-type dimer aggregate decreases the fluorescence radiation rate while accelerating the ISC rate, also enhancing the phosphorescence emission of SBP. Doping SBP molecules into a PMMA matrix can stabilize triplet excitons, yielding the maximum phosphorescence quantum yield of 18.9%. We realized triplet phosphorescent amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) at 557 nm from 30.0 wt % SBP@PMMA samples. Our results provide a novel strategy to develop triplet phosphor OGMs.
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- Guo Zu
- Institute of Molecule Plus, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin), Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, P. R. China
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- Institute of Molecule Plus, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin), Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, P. R. China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory for Optical Materials and Photonic Devices, Department of Chemistry, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100048, P. R. China
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- Institute of Molecule Plus, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin), Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, P. R. China
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- Institute of Molecule Plus, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin), Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, P. R. China
- Beijing Key Laboratory for Optical Materials and Photonic Devices, Department of Chemistry, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100048, P. R. China
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Niu B, Shi X, Ge K, Ruan J, Xu Z, Zhang S, Guo D, Zhai T. An all-optical tunable polymer WGM laser pumped by a laser diode. NANOSCALE ADVANCES 2022; 4:2153-2158. [PMID: 36133452 PMCID: PMC9417825 DOI: 10.1039/d2na00025c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2022] [Accepted: 03/28/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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An all-optical tunable whispering gallery mode (WGM) laser pumped by a laser diode is proposed. The laser is fabricated by filling a silica capillary with a light-emitting conjugated polymer solution. Based on the thermo-optic effect of the hydroxyl groups in the polymer and capillary, the effective refractive index of the WGM cavity changes by the auxiliary irradiation of the laser, and the wavelength of the WGM mode shifts correspondingly. The emission wavelength was continuously tuned over 13 nm with the irradiation power intensity changing from 0 to 22.41 W cm-2, showing a corresponding tuning rate of 0.58 nm W-1 cm-2. The wavelength tuning process has a fast response time that is within 2.8 s. It shows strong stability, with the output intensity showing no obvious attenuation after 100 minutes of operation. The proposed laser exhibits good repeatability, stability and high tuning efficiency, and could be applied as a light source for on-chip devices.
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- Ben Niu
- College of Physics and Optoelectronics, Faculty of Science, Beijing University of Technology Beijing 100124 China
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- College of Physics and Optoelectronics, Faculty of Science, Beijing University of Technology Beijing 100124 China
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- College of Physics and Optoelectronics, Faculty of Science, Beijing University of Technology Beijing 100124 China
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- College of Physics and Optoelectronics, Faculty of Science, Beijing University of Technology Beijing 100124 China
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- College of Physics and Optoelectronics, Faculty of Science, Beijing University of Technology Beijing 100124 China
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- College of Physics and Optoelectronics, Faculty of Science, Beijing University of Technology Beijing 100124 China
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- College of Physics and Optoelectronics, Faculty of Science, Beijing University of Technology Beijing 100124 China
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- College of Physics and Optoelectronics, Faculty of Science, Beijing University of Technology Beijing 100124 China
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Chen HX, Qian MD, Yu K, Liu YF. Low Threshold Microlasers Based on Organic-Conjugated Polymers. Front Chem 2021; 9:807605. [PMID: 34966724 PMCID: PMC8710511 DOI: 10.3389/fchem.2021.807605] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2021] [Accepted: 11/10/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Conjugated polymers have emerged as ideal organic laser materials for the excellent optoelectrical properties and facile processability. During a typical lasing process, resonator configurations with specific geometry are essential to provide optical feedback and then amplified light. Herein, we summarized the geometry and working mechanism of several typical resonator configurations formed with conjugated polymers. Meanwhile, recent advances in fabrication techniques and lasing performance are also discussed to provide new ideas for the design and optimization of microcavity geometries. Followed by the advances of practical applications in fields of laser sensing, bioimaging, and laser illumination/display, we make a summary of the existing bottlenecks and future perspectives of electrically driven organic lasers toward laser display and illumination.
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- Hong-Xu Chen
- Henan Key Laboratory of Infrared Materials and Spectrum Measures and Applications, School of Physics, Henan Normal University, Xinxiang, China.,School of Artificial Intelligence, Jilin University, Changchun, China
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- Henan Key Laboratory of Infrared Materials and Spectrum Measures and Applications, School of Physics, Henan Normal University, Xinxiang, China
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- Henan Key Laboratory of Infrared Materials and Spectrum Measures and Applications, School of Physics, Henan Normal University, Xinxiang, China
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- Henan Key Laboratory of Infrared Materials and Spectrum Measures and Applications, School of Physics, Henan Normal University, Xinxiang, China
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Organic Dye-Doped PMMA Lasing. Polymers (Basel) 2021; 13:polym13203566. [PMID: 34685325 PMCID: PMC8540746 DOI: 10.3390/polym13203566] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2021] [Revised: 09/30/2021] [Accepted: 10/08/2021] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Organic thin-film lasers gain interest as potential light sources for application in diverse fields. With the current development, they hold variety of benefits such as: low-cost, high-performance, and color-tunability. Meanwhile, the production is not complicated because both the resonator and the gain medium can be assembled by solution-processable organic materials. To our knowledge, information about using poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) as a matrix for organic dye lasers was insubstantial. Herein, the feasibility of using organic dye-doped PMMA as an organic dye laser was tested. Six different sample designs were introduced to find out the best sample model. The most optimum result was displayed by the sample design, in which the gain medium was sandwiched between the substrate and the photoresist layer with grating structure. The impact of dye concentration and grating period on peak wavelength was also investigated, which resulted in a shift of 6 nm and 25 nm, respectively. Moreover, there were in total six various organic dyes that could function well with PMMA to collectively perform as ‘organic dye lasers’, and they emitted in the range of 572 nm to 609 nm. Besides, one of the samples was used as a sensor platform. For instance, it was used to detect the concentration of sugar solutions.
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Niu B, Ge K, Xu Z, Shi X, Guo D, Zhai T. Laser Diode Pumped Polymer Lasers with Tunable Emission Based on Microfluidic Channels. Polymers (Basel) 2021; 13:polym13203511. [PMID: 34685270 PMCID: PMC8537490 DOI: 10.3390/polym13203511] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2021] [Revised: 10/09/2021] [Accepted: 10/12/2021] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Tunable whispering-gallery-mode (WGM) lasers have been paid lots of attention for their potential applications in the photonic field. Here, a tunable polymer WGM laser based on laser diode pumping is realized with a threshold of 0.43 MW/cm2 per pulse. The WGM laser is realized by a microfluidic microcavity, which consists of a quartz capillary and gain materials. The laser performance keeps stable for a long time (3.5 h), pumped by a 50-ns 50 Hz laser diode with a pumping peak power density of 1.08 MW/cm2 per pulse. The lasing wavelength can be tuned over 15 nm by changing the gain material concentration from 3.5 mg/mL to 12.5 mg/mL in the microfluidic channel. Moreover, the lasing mode can be switched between transverse magnetic (TM) and transverse electric (TE) modes by adjusting the pump polarization. These results provide the basis for designing nanophotonic devices with laser diode pumping.
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Whitworth GL, Dalmases M, Taghipour N, Konstantatos G. Solution-processed PbS quantum dot infrared laser with room-temperature tuneable emission in the optical telecommunications window. NATURE PHOTONICS 2021; 15:738-742. [PMID: 34616485 PMCID: PMC7611770 DOI: 10.1038/s41566-021-00878-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2021] [Accepted: 08/17/2021] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Solution processed semiconductor lasers have achieved much success across the nanomaterial research community, including in organic semiconductors1,2, perovskites3,4 and colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals5,6. The ease of integration with other photonic components, and the potential for upscaling using emerging large area fabrication technologies, such as roll-to-roll7, make these lasers attractive as low-cost photonic light sources that can find use in a variety of applications: integrated photonic circuitry8,9, telecommunications10,11, chemo-/bio-sensing12,13, security14, and lab-on-chip experiments15. However, for fiber-optic or free-space optical (FPO) communications and eye-safe LIDAR applications, room temperature solution-processed lasers have remained elusive. Here we report the first solution processed laser, comprising PbS colloidal quantum dots (CQDs) integrated on a distributed feedback (DFB) cavitiy, with tuneable lasing wavelength from 1.55 μm - 1.65 μm. These lasers operate at room temperature and exhibit linewidths as low as ~0.9 meV.
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- G. L. Whitworth
- ICFO, Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques, The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Castelldefels (Barcelona) 08860Spain
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- ICFO, Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques, The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Castelldefels (Barcelona) 08860Spain
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- ICFO, Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques, The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Castelldefels (Barcelona) 08860Spain
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- ICFO, Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques, The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Castelldefels (Barcelona) 08860Spain
- ICREA, Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, 08010 Barcelona, Spain
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Wang J, Liu Y, Zou D, Ren Z, Lin J, Liu X, Yan S. Controlling the Chain Orientation and Crystal Form of Poly(9,9-dioctylfluorene) Films for Low-Threshold Light-Pumped Lasers. Macromolecules 2021. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.0c02815] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Junjie Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China
- Key Laboratory of Rubber-Plastics, Ministry of Education, Qingdao University of Science & Technology, Qingdao 266042, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Luminescence and Applications, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, Changchun 130033, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Luminescence and Applications, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, Changchun 130033, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Luminescence and Applications, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, Changchun 130033, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China
- Key Laboratory of Rubber-Plastics, Ministry of Education, Qingdao University of Science & Technology, Qingdao 266042, P. R. China
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Solid cyclooctatetraene-based triplet quencher demonstrating excellent suppression of singlet-triplet annihilation in optical and electrical excitation. Nat Commun 2020; 11:5623. [PMID: 33159048 PMCID: PMC7648636 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-19443-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2020] [Accepted: 10/13/2020] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Triplet excitons have been identified as the major obstacle to the realisation of organic laser diodes, as accumulation of triplet excitons leads to significant losses under continuous wave (CW) operation and/or electrical excitation. Here, we report the design and synthesis of a solid-state organic triplet quencher, as well as in-depth studies of its dispersion into a solution processable bis-stilbene-based laser dye. By blending the laser dye with 20 wt% of the quencher, negligible effects on the ASE thresholds, but a complete suppression of singlet–triplet annihilation (STA) and a 20-fold increase in excited-state photostability of the laser dye under CW excitation, were achieved. We used small-area OLEDs (0.2 mm2) to demonstrate efficient STA suppression by the quencher in the nanosecond range, supported by simulations to provide insights into the observed STA quenching under electrical excitation. The results demonstrate excellent triplet quenching ability under both optical and electrical excitations in the nanosecond range, coupled with excellent solution processability. Though reducing non-emissive triplet excited-states using quenchers effectively improves organic semiconductor laser diode (OSLD) performance, existing quenchers are not suitable for devices. Here, the authors designed a solid-state triplet quencher for OSLD under optical and electrical excitation.
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Zou Y, Bonal V, Moles Quintero S, Boj PG, Villalvilla JM, Quintana JA, Li G, Wu S, Jiang Q, Ni Y, Casado J, Díaz‐García MA, Wu J. Perylene‐Fused, Aggregation‐Free Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons for Solution‐Processed Distributed Feedback Lasers. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2020; 59:14927-14934. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.202004789] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2020] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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- Ya Zou
- Department of Chemistry National University of Singapore 3 Science Drive 3 117543 Singapore Singapore
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- Departamento Física Aplicada, and Instituto Universitario de Materiales de Alicante Universidad de Alicante 03080 Alicante Spain
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- Department of Physical Chemistry University of Malaga Campus de Teations s/n 229071 Malaga Spain
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- Departamento Óptica Farmacología y Anatomía, and Instituto Universitario de Materiales de Alicante Universidad de Alicante 03080 Alicante Spain
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- Departamento Física Aplicada, and Instituto Universitario de Materiales de Alicante Universidad de Alicante 03080 Alicante Spain
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- Departamento Óptica Farmacología y Anatomía, and Instituto Universitario de Materiales de Alicante Universidad de Alicante 03080 Alicante Spain
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- Department of Chemistry National University of Singapore 3 Science Drive 3 117543 Singapore Singapore
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- Department of Chemistry National University of Singapore 3 Science Drive 3 117543 Singapore Singapore
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- Department of Chemistry National University of Singapore 3 Science Drive 3 117543 Singapore Singapore
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- Department of Chemistry National University of Singapore 3 Science Drive 3 117543 Singapore Singapore
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- Department of Physical Chemistry University of Malaga Campus de Teations s/n 229071 Malaga Spain
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- Departamento Física Aplicada, and Instituto Universitario de Materiales de Alicante Universidad de Alicante 03080 Alicante Spain
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- Department of Chemistry National University of Singapore 3 Science Drive 3 117543 Singapore Singapore
- Joint School of National University of Singapore and Tianjin University International Campus of Tianjin University, Binhai New City Fuzhou 350207 China
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Zou Y, Bonal V, Moles Quintero S, Boj PG, Villalvilla JM, Quintana JA, Li G, Wu S, Jiang Q, Ni Y, Casado J, Díaz‐García MA, Wu J. Perylene‐Fused, Aggregation‐Free Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons for Solution‐Processed Distributed Feedback Lasers. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.202004789] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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- Ya Zou
- Department of Chemistry National University of Singapore 3 Science Drive 3 117543 Singapore Singapore
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- Departamento Física Aplicada, and Instituto Universitario de Materiales de Alicante Universidad de Alicante 03080 Alicante Spain
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- Department of Physical Chemistry University of Malaga Campus de Teations s/n 229071 Malaga Spain
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- Departamento Óptica Farmacología y Anatomía, and Instituto Universitario de Materiales de Alicante Universidad de Alicante 03080 Alicante Spain
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- Departamento Física Aplicada, and Instituto Universitario de Materiales de Alicante Universidad de Alicante 03080 Alicante Spain
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- Departamento Óptica Farmacología y Anatomía, and Instituto Universitario de Materiales de Alicante Universidad de Alicante 03080 Alicante Spain
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- Department of Chemistry National University of Singapore 3 Science Drive 3 117543 Singapore Singapore
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- Department of Chemistry National University of Singapore 3 Science Drive 3 117543 Singapore Singapore
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- Department of Chemistry National University of Singapore 3 Science Drive 3 117543 Singapore Singapore
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- Department of Chemistry National University of Singapore 3 Science Drive 3 117543 Singapore Singapore
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- Department of Physical Chemistry University of Malaga Campus de Teations s/n 229071 Malaga Spain
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- Departamento Física Aplicada, and Instituto Universitario de Materiales de Alicante Universidad de Alicante 03080 Alicante Spain
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- Department of Chemistry National University of Singapore 3 Science Drive 3 117543 Singapore Singapore
- Joint School of National University of Singapore and Tianjin University International Campus of Tianjin University, Binhai New City Fuzhou 350207 China
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Single-Mode Polymer Ridge Waveguide Integration of Organic Thin-Film Laser. APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL 2020. [DOI: 10.3390/app10082805] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Organic thin-film lasers (OLAS) are promising optical sources when it comes to flexibility and small-scale manufacturing. These properties are required especially for integrating organic thin-film lasers into single-mode waveguides. Optical sensors based on single-mode ridge waveguide systems, especially for Lab-on-a-chip (LoC) applications, usually need external laser sources, free-space optics, and coupling structures, which suffer from coupling losses and mechanical stabilization problems. In this paper, we report on the first successful integration of organic thin-film lasers directly into polymeric single-mode ridge waveguides forming a monolithic laser device for LoC applications. The integrated waveguide laser is achieved by three production steps: nanoimprint of Bragg gratings onto the waveguide cladding material EpoClad, UV-Lithography of the waveguide core material EpoCore, and thermal evaporation of the OLAS material Alq3:DCM2 on top of the single-mode waveguides and the Bragg grating area. Here, the laser light is analyzed out of the waveguide facet with optical spectroscopy presenting single-mode characteristics even with high pump energy densities. This kind of integrated waveguide laser is very suitable for photonic LoC applications based on intensity and interferometric sensors where single-mode operation is required.
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Universal three-dimensional crosslinker for all-photopatterned electronics. Nat Commun 2020; 11:1520. [PMID: 32251285 PMCID: PMC7089981 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-15181-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2019] [Accepted: 02/17/2020] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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All-solution processing of large-area organic electronics requires multiple steps of patterning and stacking of various device components. Here, we report the fabrication of highly integrated arrays of polymer thin-film transistors and logic gates entirely through a series of solution processes. The fabrication is done using a three-dimensional crosslinker in tetrahedral geometry containing four photocrosslinkable azide moieties, referred to as 4Bx. 4Bx can be mixed with a variety of solution-processable electronic materials (polymer semiconductors, polymer insulators, and metal nanoparticles) and generate crosslinked network under exposure to UV. Fully crosslinked network film can be formed even at an unprecedentedly small loading, which enables preserving the inherent electrical and structural characteristics of host material. Because the crosslinked electronic component layers are strongly resistant to chemical solvents, micropatterning the layers at high resolution as well as stacking the layers on top of each other by series of solution processing steps is possible. To enable the large-area manufacture of solution-processed organic electronics, direct photocrosslinking processes has emerged as a promising technology solution. Here, the authors report an efficient universal crosslinking agent for micropatterning of stacked multi-layered organic electronics.
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Zhang S, Cui LB, Zhang X, Tong JH, Zhai T. Tunable polymer lasing in chirped cavities. OPTICS EXPRESS 2020; 28:2809-2817. [PMID: 32121961 DOI: 10.1364/oe.382536] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2019] [Accepted: 01/09/2020] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Continuously tunable polymer lasing was achieved in one-dimensional, two-dimensional, and compound chirped cavities. The chirped cavity was simply fabricated by using interference lithography and spin coating. Two-dimensional and compound chirped cavities were obtained by employing oblique exposure and double exposure, respectively. The tunability range of two-dimensional chirped cavities was much wider than that of one-dimensional chirped cavities, which varied from 557 nm to 582 nm. The interaction between lasing modes was studied in the compound cavity by introducing an additional nanostructure into the two-dimensional chirped cavities. The threshold of the compound chirped cavities changed with the coupling strength between lasing modes. These results may be helpful for designing compact polymer laser sources.
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Rosenberg M, Schvartzman M. Direct Resistless Soft Nanopatterning of Freeform Surfaces. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2019; 11:43494-43499. [PMID: 31660725 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.9b13494] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Nanoimprint is broadly used to pattern thin polymer films on rigid substrates. The resulted patterns can be used either as functional nanostructures or as masks for a pattern transfer. Also, nanoimprint could, in principle, be used for the direct patterning of thermoformable substrates with functional nanostructures; however, the resulted global substrate deformation makes this approach unpractical. Here, we present a new approach for the direct nanoimprint of thermoformable substrates with functional nanostructures through precise maintaining of the substrate shape. Our approach is based on an elastomeric stam soaked in organic solvent, which diffuses into the imprinted substrate, plasticizes its surface, and thereby allows its imprint at the temperature below its glass transition point. Using this approach, we imprinted features at the 20 nm scale, which are comparable to those demonstrated by conventional nanoimprint techniques. We illustrated the applicability of our approach by producing functional antireflective nanostructures onto flat and curved optical substrates. In both cases, we achieved full pattern transfer and maintained the shape of the imprinted substrates, a combination that has not been demonstrated so far. Our approach substantially expands the capabilities of nanoimprint and paves the way to its numerous applications, which have been impossible by existing nanopatterning technologies.
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Tsuji H, Nakamura E. Carbon-Bridged Oligo(phenylene vinylene)s: A de Novo Designed, Flat, Rigid, and Stable π-Conjugated System. Acc Chem Res 2019; 52:2939-2949. [PMID: 31525023 DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.9b00369] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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The modern history of conducting organic systems started with a fortuitous error in 1967 on acetylene polymerization, followed by a rational discovery in 1976 on the effects of doping that generates a polaron and, hence, dramatically increases conductivity. Not unexpectedly, however, the prototypical polyacetylene suffers many problems, including C-C single bond rotation, short effective conjugation length, radiationless deactivation, and instability of the polarons. Several strategies have been put in place to solve these problems. An early approach relied on partial rigidification of the polyene structure by conversion into polymers with thiophene, pyrrole, and benzene linkages. An oligo(phenylene vinylene) (OPV) is an all-carbon analogue of polyacetylene, where every other diene unit in the polyene chain is converted to a benzene unit, still leaving many C-C single bonds freely rotating in the molecule. We considered adding additional carbon bridges to rigidify the OPV skeleton entirely to create a carbon-bridged OPV (COPV). Making such a compound was an obvious challenge. This Account describes the authors' efforts to design and synthesize a series of COPV molecules, where the benzene rings in OPV are bridged by sp3 carbon atoms to form a bicyclo[3.3.0]octatriene framework bearing a tetrasubstituted olefin at the ring fusion. This olefinic bond is so strained that it resists further deformation or conversion to sp3 centers, and hence, it is chemically stable despite the strain. The sp3 carbon bridges can bear organic side chains that hinder intermolecular interactions, rendering the excited states stable and long-lived even in the solid state. They also increase solubility, a common problem among rigid molecular systems. With these structural features, the COPV molecules were found to be well behaved both at a single-molecule level and as a bulk material. We reported in 2009 a method for the synthesis of COPVs and have, since then, reported their structures and physicochemical properties, including basic photophysical properties of neutral and charged derivatives, thermal and photostability, and fast electron transfer. These properties have rendered the COPV molecules useful for electronic and photonic research, for example, lasers, solar cells, and molecular wire applications. Noteworthy discoveries in the area connecting chemistry and physics include inelastic tunneling and long-range resonance tunneling at ambient temperature, which were previously observed only for organic molecular wires placed under cryogenic conditions. Given the ready availability of the COPV skeleton bearing a wide variety of substituents, this class of molecules will serve as versatile building blocks for fundamental and applied research on physicochemical and materials chemistry.
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- Hayato Tsuji
- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Kanagawa University, 2946 Tsuchiya, Hiratsuka 259-1293, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
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Controlling the emission properties of solution-processed organic distributed feedback lasers through resonator design. Sci Rep 2019; 9:11159. [PMID: 31371733 PMCID: PMC6671999 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-47589-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2019] [Accepted: 07/19/2019] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Surface-emitting distributed feedback (DFB) lasers with both, resonator and active material based on solution-processable polymers, are attractive light sources for a variety of low-cost applications. Besides, the lasers should have competitive characteristics compared to devices based on high-quality inorganic resonators. Here, we report high performing all-solution-processed organic DFB lasers, consisting of water-processed photoresist layers with surface relief gratings located over the active films, whose emission properties can be finely tuned through resonator design. Their laser threshold and efficiency are simultaneously optimized by proper selection of residual resist thickness and grating depth, d. Lowest thresholds and largest efficiencies are obtained when there is no residual layer, while a trade-off between threshold and efficiency is found in relation to d, because both parameters decrease with decreasing d. This behaviour is successfully explained in terms of an overlap factor r, defined to quantify the interaction strength between the grating and the light emitted by the active film and traveling along it, via the evanescent field. It is found that optimal grating depths are in the range 100–130 nm (r ~ 0.5−0.4). Overall, this study provides comprehensive design rules towards an accurate control of the emission properties of the reported lasers.
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Solution-processed nanographene distributed feedback lasers. Nat Commun 2019; 10:3327. [PMID: 31346182 PMCID: PMC6658550 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-11336-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2019] [Accepted: 07/04/2019] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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The chemical synthesis of nanographene molecules constitutes the bottom-up approach toward graphene, simultaneously providing rational chemical design, structure-property control and exploitation of their semiconducting and luminescence properties. Here, we report nanographene-based lasers from three zigzag-edged polycyclic aromatics. The devices consist of a passive polymer film hosting the nanographenes and a top-layer polymeric distributed feedback resonator. Both the active material and the laser resonator are processed from solution, key for the purpose of obtaining low-cost devices with mechanical flexibility. The prepared lasers show narrow linewidth ( < 0.13 nm) emission at different spectral regions covering a large segment of the visible spectrum, and up to the vicinity of the near-infrared. They show outstandingly long operational lifetimes (above 105 pump pulses) and very low thresholds. These results represent a significant step forward in the field of graphene and broaden its versatility in low-cost devices implying light emission, such as lasers. Chemically synthesized graphene nanosheets offer device design flexibility and improved optoelectronic performance. Here, the authors report solution-processed distributed feedback lasers with graphene nanosheets as active media having linewidths < 0.13 nm, long operational lifetimes and low thresholds.
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Kanibolotsky AL, Laurand N, Dawson MD, Turnbull GA, Samuel IDW, Skabara PJ. Design of Linear and Star-Shaped Macromolecular Organic Semiconductors for Photonic Applications. Acc Chem Res 2019; 52:1665-1674. [PMID: 31117341 DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.9b00129] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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One of the most desirable and advantageous attributes of organic materials chemistry is the ability to tune the molecular structure to achieve targeted physical properties. This can be performed to achieve specific values for the ionization potential or electron affinity of the material, the absorption and emission characteristics, charge transport properties, phase behavior, solubility, processability, and many other properties, which in turn can help push the limits of performance in organic semiconductor devices. A striking example is the ability to make subtle structural changes to a conjugated macromolecule to vary the absorption and emission properties of a generic chemical structure. In this Account, we demonstrate that target properties for specific photonic applications can be achieved from different types of semiconductor structures, namely, monodisperse star-shaped molecules, complex linear macromolecules, and conjugated polymers. The most appropriate material for any single application inevitably demands consideration of a trade-off of various properties; in this Account, we focus on applications such as organic lasers, electrogenerated chemiluminescence, hybrid light emitting diodes, and visible light communications. In terms of synthesis, atom and step economies are also important. The star-shaped structures consist of a core unit with 3 or 4 functional connection points, to which can be attached conjugated oligomers of varying length and composition. This strategy follows a convergent synthetic pathway and allows the isolation of target macromolecules in good yield, high purity, and absolute reproducibility. It is a versatile approach, providing a wide choice of constituent molecular units and therefore varying properties, while the products share many of the desirable attributes of polymers. Constructing linear conjugated macromolecules with multifunctionality can lead to complex synthetic routes and lower atom and step economies, inferior processability, and lower thermal or chemical stability, but these materials can be designed to provide a range of different targeted physical properties. Conventional conjugated polymers, as the third type of structure, often feature so-called "champion" properties. The synthetic challenge is mainly concerned with monomer synthesis, but the final polymerization sequence can be hard to control, leading to variable molecular weights and polydispersities and some degree of inconsistency in the properties of the same material between different synthetic batches. If a champion characteristic persists between samples, then the variation of other properties between batches can be tolerable, depending on the target application. In the case of polymers, we have chosen to study PPV-type polymers with bulky side groups that provide protection of their conjugated backbone from π-π stacking interactions. These polymers exhibit high photoluminescence quantum yields (PLQYs) in films and short radiative lifetimes and are an important benchmark to monodisperse star-shaped systems in terms of different absorption/emission regions. This Account therefore outlines the advantages and special features of monodisperse star-shaped macromolecules for photonic applications but also considers the two alternative classes of materials and highlights the pros and cons of each class of conjugated structure.
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- Alexander L. Kanibolotsky
- WestCHEM, School of Chemistry, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, U.K
- Institute of Physical-Organic Chemistry and Coal Chemistry, 02160 Kyiv, Ukraine
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- Institute of Photonics, Department of Physics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G1 1RD, U.K
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- Institute of Photonics, Department of Physics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G1 1RD, U.K
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- Organic Semiconductor Centre, SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews KY16 9SS, U.K
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- Organic Semiconductor Centre, SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews KY16 9SS, U.K
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- WestCHEM, School of Chemistry, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, U.K
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Wang M, Zhang X. Femtosecond Thin-Film Laser Amplifiers Using Chirped Gratings. ACS OMEGA 2019; 4:7980-7986. [PMID: 31459886 PMCID: PMC6648656 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.9b00232] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2019] [Accepted: 04/05/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Ultrafast injection-locked amplification is achieved by sending femtosecond supercontinuum pulses into a polymeric thin film coated on a distributed feedback (DFB) microcavity consisting of chirped gratings. The spatial variation of the grating period led to the resonance of the DFB microcavity at different wavelengths for injection at different locations. This enables convenient and continuous tuning of the amplification spectrum by displacing the grating structures. The large area of the grating structures enabled large tuning range. The amplified spectrum can be continuously tuned from 545 to 580 nm through sliding the grating structures by about 3.5 mm. Sub-1 ps lifetime has been measured for the amplification process with a net amplification factor as large as 33. Injection locking enabled high-quality control of the divergence and transverse mode of the output laser beam.
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Wang X, Geng Z, Cong H, Shen Y, Yu B. Organic Semiconductors for Photothermal Therapy and Photoacoustic Imaging. Chembiochem 2019; 20:1628-1636. [DOI: 10.1002/cbic.201800818] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/25/2018] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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- Xuemei Wang
- Institute of Biomedical Materials and EngineeringCollege of Materials Science and EngineeringState Key Laboratory of Bio-Fibers and Eco-TextilesCollege of Chemistry and Chemical EngineeringQingdao University Qingdao 266071 China
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- Institute of Biomedical Materials and EngineeringCollege of Materials Science and EngineeringState Key Laboratory of Bio-Fibers and Eco-TextilesCollege of Chemistry and Chemical EngineeringQingdao University Qingdao 266071 China
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- Institute of Biomedical Materials and EngineeringCollege of Materials Science and EngineeringState Key Laboratory of Bio-Fibers and Eco-TextilesCollege of Chemistry and Chemical EngineeringQingdao University Qingdao 266071 China
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- Institute of Biomedical Materials and EngineeringCollege of Materials Science and EngineeringState Key Laboratory of Bio-Fibers and Eco-TextilesCollege of Chemistry and Chemical EngineeringQingdao University Qingdao 266071 China
- Center for Bionanoengineering and Key Laboratoryof Biomass Chemical Engineering of Ministry of EducationCollege of Chemical and Biological EngineeringZhejiang University Hangzhou 310027 China
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- Institute of Biomedical Materials and EngineeringCollege of Materials Science and EngineeringState Key Laboratory of Bio-Fibers and Eco-TextilesCollege of Chemistry and Chemical EngineeringQingdao University Qingdao 266071 China
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Wang M, Lin J, Hsiao YC, Liu X, Hu B. Investigating underlying mechanism in spectral narrowing phenomenon induced by microcavity in organic light emitting diodes. Nat Commun 2019; 10:1614. [PMID: 30962445 PMCID: PMC6453918 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-09585-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2018] [Accepted: 03/18/2019] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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This paper reports our experimental studies on the underlying mechanism responsible for electroluminescence spectral narrowing phenomenon in the cavity-based organic light-emitting diodes. It is found that the microcavity generates an emerging phenomenon: a magneto-photoluminescence signal in Poly(9,9-dioctylfluorene-alt-benzothiadiazole) polymer under photoexcitation, which is completely absent when microcavity is not used. This provides an evidence that microcavity leads to the formation of spatially extended states, functioning as the intermediate states prior to the formation of Frenkel excitons in organic materials. This is confirmed by the magneto-electroluminescence solely observed from the cavity-based light-emitting diodes under electrical injection. Furthermore, the narrowed electroluminescence output shows a linear polarization, concurrently occurred with magneto-electroluminescence. This indicates that the spatially extended sates become aligned towards forming coherent light-emitting excitons within the microcavity through optical resonance. Clearly, the spatially extended states present the necessary condition to realize electroluminescence spectral narrowing phenomenon towards lasing actions in cavity-based organic light-emitting diodes.
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- Miaosheng Wang
- Key Laboratory of Luminescence and Optical Information, Ministry of Education, School of Science, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, 100044, China.,Joint Institute for Advanced Materials, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 37996, USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Luminescence and Applications, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, 130033, China
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- Joint Institute for Advanced Materials, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 37996, USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Luminescence and Applications, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, 130033, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Luminescence and Optical Information, Ministry of Education, School of Science, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, 100044, China. .,Joint Institute for Advanced Materials, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 37996, USA.
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Cao F, Zhang S, Tong J, Chen C, Niu L, Zhai T, Zhang X. Effects of Cavity Structure on Tuning Properties of Polymer Lasers in a Liquid Environment. Polymers (Basel) 2019; 11:E329. [PMID: 30960313 PMCID: PMC6419154 DOI: 10.3390/polym11020329] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2019] [Revised: 02/10/2019] [Accepted: 02/12/2019] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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The effect of cavity structures on the tuning properties of polymer lasers was investigated in two common distributed-feedback cavities. The configurations of the two cavities are substrate/grating/active waveguide and substrate/active waveguide/grating, respectively. The polymer lasers were operated in the liquid environment, and the laser wavelength was tuned dynamically by changing the refractive index of the liquid. Polymer lasers based on the substrate/grating/active waveguide structure showed a higher tunability than those based on the substrate/active waveguide/grating structure due to a larger electric field distribution of the laser mode in the liquid environment. It is expected that these results will be useful in the development of tunable laser sources.
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- Fengzhao Cao
- Institute of Information Photonics Technology and College of Applied Sciences, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China.
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- Institute of Information Photonics Technology and College of Applied Sciences, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China.
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- Institute of Information Photonics Technology and College of Applied Sciences, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China.
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- Institute of Information Photonics Technology and College of Applied Sciences, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China.
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- Institute of Information Photonics Technology and College of Applied Sciences, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China.
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- Institute of Information Photonics Technology and College of Applied Sciences, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China.
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- Institute of Information Photonics Technology and College of Applied Sciences, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China.
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Sandanayaka ASD, Matsushima T, Bencheikh F, Yoshida K, Inoue M, Fujihara T, Goushi K, Ribierre JC, Adachi C. Toward continuous-wave operation of organic semiconductor lasers. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2017; 3:e1602570. [PMID: 28508042 PMCID: PMC5409494 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1602570] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2016] [Accepted: 03/01/2017] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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The demonstration of continuous-wave lasing from organic semiconductor films is highly desirable for practical applications in the areas of spectroscopy, data communication, and sensing, but it still remains a challenging objective. We report low-threshold surface-emitting organic distributed feedback lasers operating in the quasi-continuous-wave regime at 80 MHz as well as under long-pulse photoexcitation of 30 ms. This outstanding performance was achieved using an organic semiconductor thin film with high optical gain, high photoluminescence quantum yield, and no triplet absorption losses at the lasing wavelength combined with a mixed-order distributed feedback grating to achieve a low lasing threshold. A simple encapsulation technique greatly reduced the laser-induced thermal degradation and suppressed the ablation of the gain medium otherwise taking place under intense continuous-wave photoexcitation. Overall, this study provides evidence that the development of a continuous-wave organic semiconductor laser technology is possible via the engineering of the gain medium and the device architecture.
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- Atula S. D. Sandanayaka
- Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics Research, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Nishi, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan
- Japan Science and Technology Agency, Exploratory Research for Advanced Technology, Adachi Molecular Exciton Engineering Project, 744 Motooka, Nishi, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan
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- Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics Research, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Nishi, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan
- Japan Science and Technology Agency, Exploratory Research for Advanced Technology, Adachi Molecular Exciton Engineering Project, 744 Motooka, Nishi, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan
- International Institute for Carbon Neutral Energy Research (WPI-I2CNER), Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Nishi, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan
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- Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics Research, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Nishi, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan
- Japan Science and Technology Agency, Exploratory Research for Advanced Technology, Adachi Molecular Exciton Engineering Project, 744 Motooka, Nishi, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan
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- Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics Research, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Nishi, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan
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- Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics Research, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Nishi, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan
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- Innovative Organic Device Laboratory, Institute of Systems, Information Technologies and Nanotechnologies, 5-14 Kyudai-shinmachi, Nishi, Fukuoka 819-0388, Japan
- Fukuoka i-Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics Research (i-OPERA), 5-14 Kyudai-shinmachi, Nishi, Fukuoka 819-0388, Japan
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- Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics Research, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Nishi, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan
- Japan Science and Technology Agency, Exploratory Research for Advanced Technology, Adachi Molecular Exciton Engineering Project, 744 Motooka, Nishi, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan
- International Institute for Carbon Neutral Energy Research (WPI-I2CNER), Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Nishi, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan
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- Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics Research, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Nishi, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan
- Japan Science and Technology Agency, Exploratory Research for Advanced Technology, Adachi Molecular Exciton Engineering Project, 744 Motooka, Nishi, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan
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- Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics Research, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Nishi, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan
- Japan Science and Technology Agency, Exploratory Research for Advanced Technology, Adachi Molecular Exciton Engineering Project, 744 Motooka, Nishi, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan
- International Institute for Carbon Neutral Energy Research (WPI-I2CNER), Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Nishi, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan
- Innovative Organic Device Laboratory, Institute of Systems, Information Technologies and Nanotechnologies, 5-14 Kyudai-shinmachi, Nishi, Fukuoka 819-0388, Japan
- Fukuoka i-Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics Research (i-OPERA), 5-14 Kyudai-shinmachi, Nishi, Fukuoka 819-0388, Japan
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Kuehne AJC, Gather MC. Organic Lasers: Recent Developments on Materials, Device Geometries, and Fabrication Techniques. Chem Rev 2016; 116:12823-12864. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.6b00172] [Citation(s) in RCA: 476] [Impact Index Per Article: 59.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Alexander J. C. Kuehne
- DWI−Leibniz
Institute for Interactive Materials, RWTH Aachen University, Forckenbeckstr.
50, 52056 Aachen, Germany
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- Organic
Semiconductor Centre, SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St. Andrews, North Haugh, St Andrews KY16 9SS, United Kingdom
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Yoon KW, Ha NY. Electrically tunable liquid crystal laser using a nanoimprinted indium-tin-oxide electrode as a distributed feedback resonator. OPTICS EXPRESS 2016; 24:516-521. [PMID: 26832281 DOI: 10.1364/oe.24.000516] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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We demonstrated electrical tunability of a liquid crystal (LC) laser using a nanoimprinted indium-tin-oxide (ITO) film as a distributed feedback (DFB) resonator, a transparent electrode, and an alignment layer for LCs. From the field-induced reorientation of LCs and changes in effective refractive indices of guided laser modes, lasing emission is tuned by 6 nm at low applied voltage of 8.0 V. This is because the LC laser with the nanoimprinted ITO electrode has no additional insulating layers for lasing performance. The present system is based on the functional electrode and its active control provides various applications and advances in laser technology.
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Wan W, Huang W, Pu D, Qiao W, Ye Y, Wei G, Fang Z, Zhou X, Chen L. High performance organic distributed Bragg reflector lasers fabricated by dot matrix holography. OPTICS EXPRESS 2015; 23:31926-31935. [PMID: 26698984 DOI: 10.1364/oe.23.031926] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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We report distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) polymer lasers fabricated using dot matrix holography. Pairs of distributed Bragg reflector mirrors with variable mirror separations are fabricated and a novel energy transfer blend consisting of a blue-emitting conjugated polymer and a red-emitting one is spin-coated onto the patterned substrate to complete the device. Under optical pumping, the device emits sing-mode lasing around 622 nm with a bandwidth of 0.41 nm. The working threshold is as low as 13.5 μJ/cm² (~1.68 kW/cm²) and the measured slope efficiency reaches 5.2%. The distributed feedback (DFB) cavity and the DBR cavity resonate at the same lasing wavelength while the DFB laser shows a much higher threshold. We further show that flexible DBR lasers can be conveniently fabricated through the UV-imprinting technique by using the patterned silica substrate as the mold. Dot matrix holography represents a versatile approach to control the number, the size, the location and the orientation of DBR mirrors, thus providing great flexibility in designing DBR lasers.
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Wang W, Zhou C, Zhang T, Chen J, Liu S, Fan X. Optofluidic laser array based on stable high-Q Fabry-Pérot microcavities. LAB ON A CHIP 2015; 15:3862-9. [PMID: 26304622 PMCID: PMC4573953 DOI: 10.1039/c5lc00847f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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We report the development of an optofluidic laser array fabricated on a chip using stable plano-concave Fabry-Pérot (FP) microcavities, which are far less susceptible to optical misalignment during device assembly than the commonly used plano-plano FP microcavities. The concave mirrors in our FP microcavities were created by first generating an array of microwells of a few micrometers in depth and a few tens of micrometers in diameter on a fused silica chip using a CO2 laser, followed by coating of distributed Bragg reflection (DBR) layers. The plano-concave FP microcavity had a Q-factor of 5.6 × 10(5) and finesse of 4 × 10(3), over 100 times higher than those for the FP microcavities in existing optofluidic lasers. 1 mM R6G dye in ethanol was used to test the plano-concave FP microcavities, showing an ultralow lasing threshold of only 90 nJ mm(-2), over 10 times lower than that in the corresponding unstable plano-plano FP microcavities formed by the same DBR coatings on the same chip. Simultaneous laser emission from the optofluidic laser array on the chip and single-mode lasing operation were also demonstrated. Our work will lead to the development of optofluidic laser-based biochemical sensors and novel on-chip photonic devices with extremely low lasing thresholds (nJ mm(-2)) and mode volumes (fL).
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- Wenjie Wang
- Key Lab of Advanced Transducers and Intelligent Control System of Ministry of Education, Taiyuan University of Technology, 79 Yingze Street, Taiyuan 030024, PR China.
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Carbon-bridged oligo(p-phenylenevinylene)s for photostable and broadly tunable, solution-processable thin film organic lasers. Nat Commun 2015; 6:8458. [PMID: 26416643 PMCID: PMC4598723 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9458] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2015] [Accepted: 08/23/2015] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Thin film organic lasers represent a new generation of inexpensive, mechanically flexible devices for spectroscopy, optical communications and sensing. For this purpose, it is desired to develop highly efficient, stable, wavelength-tunable and solution-processable organic laser materials. Here we report that carbon-bridged oligo(p-phenylenevinylene)s serve as optimal materials combining all these properties simultaneously at the level required for applications by demonstrating amplified spontaneous emission and distributed feedback laser devices. A series of six compounds, with the repeating unit from 1 to 6, doped into polystyrene films undergo amplified spontaneous emission from 385 to 585 nm with remarkably low threshold and high net gain coefficients, as well as high photostability. The fabricated lasers show narrow linewidth (<0.13 nm) single mode emission at very low thresholds (0.7 kW cm−2), long operational lifetimes (>105 pump pulses for oligomers with three to six repeating units) and wavelength tunability across the visible spectrum (408–591 nm). Thin film organic solid-state lasers are low-cost flexible devices which require efficient, stable, colour-tunable, solution-processable materials. Here, the authors show that oligo(p-phenylenevinylene)s simultaneously possess all such properties, as demonstrated by their use in laser devices.
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Zhai T, Wang Y, Chen L, Zhang X. Direct writing of tunable multi-wavelength polymer lasers on a flexible substrate. NANOSCALE 2015; 7:12312-12317. [PMID: 26138990 DOI: 10.1039/c5nr01871d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Tunable multi-wavelength polymer lasers based on two-dimensional distributed feedback structures are fabricated on a transparent flexible substrate using interference ablation. A scalene triangular lattice structure was designed to support stable tri-wavelength lasing emission and was achieved through multiple exposure processes. Three wavelengths were controlled by three periods of the compound cavity. Mode competition among different cavity modes was observed by changing the pump fluence. Both a redshift and blueshift of the laser wavelength could be achieved by bending the soft substrate. These results not only provide insight into the physical mechanisms behind co-cavity polymer lasers but also introduce new laser sources and laser designs for white light lasers.
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- Tianrui Zhai
- Institute of Information Photonics Technology and College of Applied Sciences, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China.
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Brenner P, Fleig LM, Liu X, Welle A, Bräse S, Lemmer U. Degradation mechanisms of polyfluorene-based organic semiconductor lasers under ambient and oxygen-free conditions. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2015. [DOI: 10.1002/polb.23733] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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- Philipp Brenner
- Light Technology Institute (LTI), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT); Kaiserstraße 12 76131 Karlsruhe Germany
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- Light Technology Institute (LTI), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT); Kaiserstraße 12 76131 Karlsruhe Germany
- Institute of Organic Chemistry (IOC), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT); Kaiserstraße 12 76131 Karlsruhe Germany
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- Light Technology Institute (LTI), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT); Kaiserstraße 12 76131 Karlsruhe Germany
- Institute of Microstructure Technology (IMT), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT); Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen Germany
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- Institute of Functional Interfaces (IFG) and Karlsruhe Nano Micro Facility (KNMF), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT); Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen Germany
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry (IOC), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT); Kaiserstraße 12 76131 Karlsruhe Germany
- Institute of Toxicology and Genetics (ITG), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT); Hermann-von-Helmholtz Platz 1 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen Germany
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- Light Technology Institute (LTI), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT); Kaiserstraße 12 76131 Karlsruhe Germany
- Institute of Microstructure Technology (IMT), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT); Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen Germany
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Cheng X, Li F, Han S, Zhang Y, Jiao C, Wei J, Ye K, Wang Y, Zhang H. Emission behaviors of unsymmetrical 1,3-diaryl-β-diketones: a model perfectly disclosing the effect of molecular conformation on luminescence of organic solids. Sci Rep 2015; 5:9140. [PMID: 25771808 PMCID: PMC4360484 DOI: 10.1038/srep09140] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2014] [Accepted: 02/18/2015] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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A series of unsymmetrical 1,3-diaryl-β-diketones 1–6 displaying molecular conformation-dependent fluorescence quantum yields have been synthesized. Crystals with planar molecular conformation such as 1, 2, 3 and 4 are highly fluorescent (φf: 39–53%), and the one holding slightly twisted conformation (5) is moderately luminescent (φf = 17%), while crystal 6 possessing heavily bent structure is completely nonluminous (φf ~ 0). The distinct fluorescence efficiencies are ascribed to their different molecular conformations, since all the crystals hold the same crystal system, space group and crystal packing structures. Additionally, the fluorescent crystals 1–5 display low threshold amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) with small full widths at half-maximum (FWHM: 3–7 nm), indicating their potential as candidates for organic crystal lasing devices.
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- Xiao Cheng
- State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, 2699 Qianjin Avenue, Changchun 130012, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, 2699 Qianjin Avenue, Changchun 130012, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, 2699 Qianjin Avenue, Changchun 130012, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, 2699 Qianjin Avenue, Changchun 130012, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, 2699 Qianjin Avenue, Changchun 130012, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, 2699 Qianjin Avenue, Changchun 130012, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, 2699 Qianjin Avenue, Changchun 130012, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, 2699 Qianjin Avenue, Changchun 130012, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, 2699 Qianjin Avenue, Changchun 130012, P. R. China
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Zhao Z, Mhibik O, Leang T, Forget S, Chénais S. Thermal effects in thin-film organic solid-state lasers. OPTICS EXPRESS 2014; 22:30092-30107. [PMID: 25606938 DOI: 10.1364/oe.22.030092] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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With the recent development of organic solid-state lasers (OSSLs) architectures enabling power scaling and progresses towards continuous-wave operation, the question of thermal effects now arises in OSSLs. In this paper, a Rhodamine 640-PMMA based vertical external cavity surface emitting organic laser is investigated. A thermal microscope is used to record temperature maps at the organic thin film surface during laser action; those maps are compared with time-resolved finite element thermal simulations. The measured and simulated peak temperature rises are in good accordance and are shown to remain below 10 K in standard operating conditions, showing a negligible impact on performance. The validated model is used to investigate typical OSSL structures from the literature, in a virtual high average power regime, and up to the CW regime. It is shown that whenever true CW organic lasing will be realized, significant thermal effects will have to be considered and properly managed.
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Foucher C, Guilhabert B, Herrnsdorf J, Laurand N, Dawson MD. Diode-pumped, mechanically-flexible polymer DFB laser encapsulated by glass membranes. OPTICS EXPRESS 2014; 22:24160-24168. [PMID: 25321991 DOI: 10.1364/oe.22.024160] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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A diode-pumped, mechanically-flexible organic distributed-feedback laser that is fully encapsulated with ultra-thin glass is reported. The organic laser is excited by 450 nm laser diode and emits at 537 nm with an oscillation threshold of 290 W/cm². The encapsulation format of the device results in a photostability that is improved by two orders of magnitude compared to a non-encapsulated reference device while maintaining mechanical flexibility thanks to an overall device thickness below 105 µm. The laser is also wavelength-tunable between 535 nm and 545 nm by bending the ultra-thin glass structure.
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Andrews JH, Crescimanno M, Singer KD, Baer E. Melt-processed polymer multilayer distributed feedback lasers: Progress and prospects. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2013. [DOI: 10.1002/polb.23425] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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- James H. Andrews
- Department of Physics and Astronomy; Youngstown State University; Youngstown Ohio 44555
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy; Youngstown State University; Youngstown Ohio 44555
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- Department of Physics; Case Western Reserve University; Cleveland Ohio 44106
- Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering; Case Western Reserve University; Cleveland Ohio 44106
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- Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering; Case Western Reserve University; Cleveland Ohio 44106
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Wang Y, Morawska PO, Kanibolotsky AL, Skabara PJ, Turnbull GA, Samuel IDW. LED pumped polymer laser sensor for explosives. LASER & PHOTONICS REVIEWS 2013; 7:L71-L76. [PMID: 25821526 PMCID: PMC4374702 DOI: 10.1002/lpor.201300072] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2013] [Revised: 08/26/2013] [Accepted: 09/09/2013] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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A very compact explosive vapor sensor is demonstrated based on a distributed feedback polymer laser pumped by a commercial InGaN light-emitting diode. The laser shows a two-stage turn on of the laser emission, for pulsed drive currents above 15.7 A. The 'double-threshold' phenomenon is attributed to the slow rise of the ∼30 ns duration LED pump pulses. The laser emits a 533 nm pulsed output beam of ∼10 ns duration perpendicular to the polymer film. When exposed to nitroaromatic model explosive vapors at ∼8 ppb concentration, the laser shows a 46% change in the surface-emitted output under optimized LED excitation.
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- Yue Wang
- Organic Semiconductor Centre, SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St AndrewsNorth Haugh, St Andrews, KY16 9SS, UK
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- Organic Semiconductor Centre, SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St AndrewsNorth Haugh, St Andrews, KY16 9SS, UK
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- WestCHEM, Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry, University of StrathclydeThomas Graham Building, Glasgow, G1 1XL, UK
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- WestCHEM, Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry, University of StrathclydeThomas Graham Building, Glasgow, G1 1XL, UK
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- Organic Semiconductor Centre, SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St AndrewsNorth Haugh, St Andrews, KY16 9SS, UK
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- Organic Semiconductor Centre, SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St AndrewsNorth Haugh, St Andrews, KY16 9SS, UK
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Skabara PJ. A brief perspective on the evolution of plastic electronics--from highly conducting polymers to conjugated organic semiconductors. Chem Commun (Camb) 2013; 49:9242-4. [PMID: 24013444 DOI: 10.1039/c3cc44599b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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This Viewpoint reflects on the work published in J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun. in 1977 by the Nobel Prize winners Shirakawa, MacDiarmid and Heeger. This paper, which is one of the most cited ChemComm articles of all time, motivated the rapid development of conducting (conjugated) polymers and the birth of plastic electronics.
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- Peter J Skabara
- WestCHEM, Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry, University of Strathclyde, UK.
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Wang Y, Tsiminis G, Kanibolotsky AL, Skabara PJ, Samuel IDW, Turnbull GA. Nanoimprinted polymer lasers with threshold below 100 W/cm2 using mixed-order distributed feedback resonators. OPTICS EXPRESS 2013; 21:14362-14367. [PMID: 23787624 DOI: 10.1364/oe.21.014362] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Organic semiconductor lasers were fabricated by UV-nanoimprint lithography with thresholds as low as 57 W/cm(2) under 4 ns pulsed operation. The nanoimprinted lasers employed mixed-order distributed feedback resonators, with second-order gratings surrounded by first-order gratings, combined with a light-emitting conjugated polymer. They were pumped by InGaN LEDs to produce green-emitting lasers, with thresholds of 208 W/cm(2) (102 nJ/pulse). These hybrid lasers incorporate a scalable UV-nanoimprint lithography process, compatible with high-performance LEDs, therefore we have demonstrated a coherent, compact, low-cost light source.
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- Yue Wang
- Organic Semiconductor Centre, SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews, North Haugh, St Andrews, KY16 9SS, UK
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