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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 18, Issue 10, Pages 10247-10256Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.010247
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- Spanish CICYT [MAT2007-65778-C02-01]
- MICINN (Fondo Social Europeo)
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Laser emission from leaky waveguides based in dye-doped organic gain media incorporating Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxanes (POSS) nanoparticles is reported. The samples consist of thin film gain media deposited onto glass substrate defining a planar asymmetric slab waveguide, which does not incorporate any resonant substructure. The presence of POSS results in additional amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) spectral narrowing, and conditions have been found for which directional multimode laser emission is achieved. The spectral narrowing is ascribed to the photon path enlargement caused by a non-resonant feedback mechanism provided by individual scatterers, which enhances incoherently the magnitude of the amplification process. On the contrary, the appearance of multimode lasing is attributed to coherent random lasing from a many scatterers collective effect. (C)2010 Optical Society of America
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