Organic solids have shown great potential for the realization of thin-film based light emitters, optical amplifiers, and lasing devices [1]. Polymer-based material systems have been demonstrated to yield low-threshold amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) and lasing under optical pumping. Various strategies have been adopted to achieve well-controlled lasing emission, among which is the principle of distributed feedback based on photonic gratings [2], where the lasing mode(s) can be tuned in wavelength by varying the grating pitch. Owing to the red shift produced in the emission/gain spectrum, with consequent reduction of the optical losses induced by self-absorption, dye-doped organics are in general advantageous over intrinsic polymers for achieving low-threshold laser action [3]. The major drawback of the technology based on dye-doped organics resides in the fact that, at high dye concentrations, the molecular interactions lead to the formation of dimers and higher-order aggregates that decrease the optical emission efficiency (concentration quenching). This puts an upper limit to the dye concentration that can be used — typically a few percent — and thus to the amount of optical gain that can be obtained in such material systems.
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Quochi, F., Cordella, F., Mura, A., Bongiovanni, G. (2008). Optical Gain and Random Lasing in Self-Assembled Organic Nanofibers. In: Al-Shamery, K., Rubahn, HG., Sitter, H. (eds) Organic Nanostructures for Next Generation Devices. Materials Science, vol 101. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71923-6_10
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