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ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS
Volume 19, Issue 17, Pages 2844-2850Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.200900503
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- European Community [FP6-IST-026365]
- UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/F061609/1]
- National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) [2009CB930601]
- NUPT Foundation [NY207040]
- British Petroleum International
- EPSRC [EP/F061609/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/F061609/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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Here, a detailed characterization of the optical gain properties of sky-blue-light-emitting pyrene-cored 9,9-dialkylfluorene starbursts is reported; it is shown that these materials possess encouragingly low laser thresholds and relatively high thermal and environmental stability. The materials exhibit high solid-state photoluminescence (PL) quantum efficiencies (>90%) and near-single-exponential PL decay transients with excited state lifetimes of similar to 1.4 ns. The thin-film slab waveguide amplified spontaneous emission (ASE)-measured net gain reaches 75-78 cm(-1). The ASE threshold energy is found to remain unaffected by heating at temperatures up to 130 degrees C, 40 to 50 degrees C above T-g. The ASE remained observable for annealing temperatures up to 170 or 200 degrees C. I D distributed feedback lasers with 75% fill factor and 320 nm period show optical pumping thresholds down to 38-65 Wcm(-2), laser slope efficiencies up to 3.9%, and wavelength tuning ranges of similar to 40 nm around 471-512 nm. In addition, these lasers have relatively long operational lifetimes, with N-1/2 >= 1.1 X 10(5) pulses for unencapsulated devices operated at ten times threshold in air.
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