Journal
ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS
Volume 23, Issue 34, Pages 4195-4205Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201300198
Keywords
O-BODIPYs; dye lasers; laser materials; polymeric materials; optically active materials
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- Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion (MICINN) [MAT2010-20646-C04-01, MAT2010-20646-C04-02, MAT2010-20646-C04-04, TRACE 2009-0144]
- Gobierno Vasco [IT339-10]
- MICINN
- Fondo Social Europeo
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A new and facile strategy for the development of photonic materials is presented that fufills the conditions of being efficient, stable, and tunable laser emitters over the visible region of spectrum, with the possibility of being easily processable and cost-effective. This approach uses poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) as a host for new dyes with improved efficiency and photostability synthesized. Using a simple protocol, fluorine atoms in the commercial (4,4-difluoro-4-bora-3a,4a-diaza-s-indacene) (F-BODIPY) by carboxylate groups. The new O-BODIPYs exhibit enhanced optical properties and laser behavior both in the liquid and solid phases compared to their commercial analogues. Lasing efficiencies up to 2.6 times higher than those recorded for the commercial dyes are registered with high photostabilities since the laser output remain at 80% of the initial value after 100 000 pump pulses in the same position of the sample at a repetition rate of 30 Hz; the corresponding commercial dye entirely loses its laser action after only 12 000 pump pulses. Distributed feedback laser emission is demonstrated with organic films incorporating new O-BODIPYs deposited onto quartz substrates engraved with appropriated periodical structures. These dyes exhibit laser thresholds up to two times lower than those of the corresponding parent dyes with lasing intensities up to one order of magnitude higher.
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