Operating characteristics of a travelling-wave semiconducting polymer optical amplifier

G Heliotis; DDC Bradley; M Goossens; S Richardson; Graham Alexander Turnbull; Ifor David William Samuel

doi:10.1063/1.1835555

Operating characteristics of a travelling-wave semiconducting polymer optical amplifier

G Heliotis, DDC Bradley, M Goossens, S Richardson, Graham Alexander Turnbull, Ifor David William Samuel

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We report a study of light amplification in dilute solutions of the semiconducting polymer poly(9,9-dioctylfluorene-co-benzothiadiazole) (F8BT). The operating characteristics of the F8BT solution amplifier are investigated in detail, and we show that it provides a large optical gain (>40 dB/cm) across a wide (>48 nm) spectral bandwidth in the green. The saturation characteristics of the amplifier are found to be in excellent agreement with theoretical predictions, allowing an estimate of the F8BT stimulated emission cross-section, sigma. We find sigmasimilar to1.7x10(-16) cm(2), comparable with the reported values for established laser dyes and other high-gain conjugated polymers. (C) 2004 American Institute of Physics.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	6122-6124
Number of pages	3
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	85
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1835555
Publication status	Published - 20 Dec 2004

Keywords

CONJUGATED POLYMER
GAIN MEDIA
EMISSION
LASERS

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